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classicide

classicide noun: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.

Noun

classicide (countable and uncountable, plural classicides)

  1. The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
    • Any study of nationalism must also take into account relationships between other ideologies and forms of genocide, whether we examine the politicides and classicides of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, the mass killing of native peoples by colonists in the Americas before the age of modern nationalism, or...2017, John Hutchinson, Nationalism and War

Forms of classicide

pluralclassicides

Origin of classicide

From class + -icide.

Questions about classicide

What does classicide mean?
Classicide means the deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
What part of speech is classicide?
Classicide is a noun.
What is the plural of classicide?
The plural of classicide is classicides.

Words near classicide in the dictionary

  1. classicalness
  2. classicalon
  3. classicalons
  4. classicals
  5. classicidal
  6. classicide
  7. classicides
  8. classicise
  9. classicised
  10. classicises
  11. classicising

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