Plural of genocide
regular plural
The plural of genocide is genocides.
Forms of genocide
| Singular | genocide /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | genocides |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Genocides in a sentence
- How many genocides? maybe you would be happier in Saudi Barbaria, Iran, Pigistan, Malaysia or Indonesia.2008 September 7, ßDoüg±Ç, “YOU AIN'T GONNA LIKE LOSING”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Feb 2026. From the entry Pigistan
- Never again is now.” She points out that there are contemporary genocides and many human rights violations happening at this very second.2014, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, Sara W. Fry, The Activist Learner: Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Better…. From the entry never again
- In his short story, the Vietnam War becomes an amalgam of all modern wars and genocides and Vietnam itself an extended traumascape.2007, Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature. From the entry traumascape
- Historians such as Liah Greenfield and Daniel Chirot have attributed the major wars and genocides in the early decades of the 20th century to ressentiment in Germany and Russia.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 632. From the entry ressentiment
Meaning of genocide
- noun The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.
- noun The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
- noun The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
Questions about the plural of genocide
- What is the plural of genocide?
- The plural of genocide is genocides.
- Is genocide countable?
- Genocide is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: genocide (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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