pogrom

(redirected from Pogroms)
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia.
Related to Pogroms: Statute of Laborers, zemstvos

po·grom

 (pə-grŏm′, pō′grəm)
n.
An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews.

[Russian, outrage, havoc, from pogromit', to wreak havoc : po-, perfective aspectual pref. (from po, next to; see apo- in Indo-European roots) + gromit', to outrage, wreak havoc (from grom, thunder).]

po·grom′ v.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

pogrom

(ˈpɒɡrəm)
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group, esp of Jews
[C20: via Yiddish from Russian: destruction, from po- like + grom thunder]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

po•grom

(pəˈgrʌm, -ˈgrɒm, poʊ-)

n.
an organized massacre, esp. of Jews.
[1880–85; (< Yiddish) < Russian pogróm literally, destruction, devastation, n. derivative of pogromít'=po- perfective prefix + gromít' to destroy, devastate, derivative of grom thunder]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

pogrom

A deliberate organized persecution of an ethnic group, especially Jews in Russia. The name comes from Russian and Yiddish words for thunder and destruction.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pogrom - organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
persecution - the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

pogrom

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

pogrom

noun
The savage killing of many victims:
The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
pogrom

pogrom

[ˈpɒgrəm] Npogrom m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pogrom

[ˈpɒgrəm] npogrom m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pogrom

nPogrom nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pogrom

[ˈpɒgrəm] npogrom m inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in periodicals archive ?
Although the famine was the impetus for the volume, pogroms served as a key motif for the naming, and changing, of a relationship between Jews and Slavs.
Overnight, Russian Jews were prohibited from owning or leasing land, and subjected to days-long pogroms that began in Kiev and quickly spread throughout the region.
During three days of pogroms, thousands of innocent people were chased, attacked, and many were killed.
My anti-racist colleagues seem to oppose every racism save one: that of Jew-hatred, aka anti-Semitism, but I bear the DNA of all my relatives whose descendants I never got to meet because they were murdered in pogroms and in the Holocaust.
"The Titanic sank in 1912, but already fifty years before, the Jews suffered pogroms and anti-Semitism mainly in Eastern Europe, and waves of immigration began from the Russian Empire to Western Europe, mainly England and France - and at some point, to the United States, as well."
Under the guise of defending the good name of "The Polish Nation" the bill opens the way to criminalising anyone who seeks to reveal dark chapters of Polish history, such as antisemitic pogroms before, during and after the war.
Immigration into these islands, in the early 20th century was a mere trickle of mainly Irish and Italians, and Jews fleeing eastern pogroms, and they contributed and they integrated.
NNA - A commemoration service will be held on February 25, 2018 at Sourp Nishan Armenian Apostolic Church in Beirut in memory of the victims of pogroms of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait back in February 1988.
Several years ago, there were pogroms in many parts of the world, and the mobs slaughtered those they called cockroaches, termites, sub-humans or dregs of the earth.
Both 1984 and 2002 were indeed state led pogroms for which justice is still awaited.
ySTANBUL (CyHAN)- Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I stated that he hopes people will learn from past ethnic tensions, during an event held on Wednesday to reflect on the pogroms in ystanbul in 1955, which comes amid the current chaos and ethnic tensions between Kurdish communities and Turkish nationalists in all corners of Turkey.