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classicides

classicides is the plural of classicide.

Meaning of classicide

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

Questions about classicides

What is classicides the plural of?
Classicides is the plural of classicide.

Words near classicides in the dictionary

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

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