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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The mass murder of European Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War II.

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  • proper noun The systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hebrew šô’â, calamity; see šwℵ in Semitic roots.]

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From the Hebrew word שואה ("catastrophe").

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