Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun holocaust

2 senses of holocaust

Sense 1
holocaust -- (an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire); "a nuclear holocaust")
       => destruction, devastation -- (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Sense 2
Holocaust, final solution -- (the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945)
       INSTANCE OF=> genocide, race murder, racial extermination -- (systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)