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final solution

final solution noun: the planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.

Noun

final solution (plural final solutions)

  1. (capitalized, historical, often) The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
    • Criticizing China’s actions alone is not enough. The United States, which at first called the Nazis' Final Solution a "war rumor," according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, must not make the same mistake again. The United States cannot stand idly by and let its economic relationship...2019 December 19, Grace Funk, “Opinion: The U.S. should do more to stop China's reeducation camps”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 31 May 2025
  2. (broadly) Any similar attempted or successful genocide.
    • Why such urgency and why suddenly a final solution in Xinjiang? […] Toward this objective, China's recent three supreme leaders, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and the incumbent Xi Jinping, all embrace such a new security agenda and engage in feverish Xinjiang ethnic pacification and military buildup...2018 October 9, Miles Maochun Yu, “China's Final Solution In Xinjiang”, in Hoover Institution, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2019
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.
    • Each mol of nitric acid gives three mol of nitrous acid which is therefore present in the final solution to the amount of 0.048 mol per liter.1911, Gilbert N. Lewis, Arthur Edgar, “The Equilibrium between nitric acid, nitrous acid and nitric oxide”, in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 33, page 297
    • Thus to argue that there is no final solution to this problem would be a disguised form of pretentious finality, [...]1975, Bernard D. den Ouden, Language and Creativity: an interdisciplinary essay in Chomskyan humanism, →ISBN, page 8

Proper noun capitalized: Final Solution

Final Solution

  1. Alternative letter-case form of final solution (“attempted mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis”).

final solution meaning in Vietnamese

final solution in Vietnamese

planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews
Giải pháp cuối cùng

Forms of final solution

pluralfinal solutions

Origin of final solution

Calque of German Endlösung, which is short for Endlösung der Judenfrage (“Final Solution to the Jewish Question”)

Questions about final solution

What does final solution mean?
Final solution means the planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
What is final solution in Vietnamese?
Final solution in Vietnamese is Giải pháp cuối cùng. See Final solution meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is final solution?
Final solution can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of final solution?
The plural of final solution is final solutions.

Words near final solution in the dictionary

  1. Final Sermon
  2. final setting time
  3. final setting times
  4. final sigma
  5. final sigmas
  6. final solution
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  8. final stand
  9. final stands
  10. final straw
  11. final stretch

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