genocide
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.
Other meanings
The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
“linguistic genocide”
The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "γένος" (race, kind).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “genocide” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.