Word.ws English Dictionary

massacres

massacres is the plural of massacre.

massacres is the third-person singular simple present indicative of massacre.

Meaning of massacre

Noun

massacre (countable and uncountable, plural massacres)

  1. The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
    • St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  2. (obsolete) Murder.
    • The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
      The most arch deed of piteous massacre
      That ever yet this land was guilty of.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.

See all 7 meanings of massacre

Questions about massacres

What is massacres the plural of?
Massacres is the plural of massacre.

Words near massacres in the dictionary

  1. massacreed
  2. massacreeing
  3. massacrees
  4. massacrer
  5. massacrers
  6. massacres
  7. massacrest
  8. massacring
  9. massacrings
  10. massacrist
  11. massacrists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: massacres (page history and authors); massacre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “massacres.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/massacres. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.