[ˈpɒɡrɒm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
(e.g: the pogroms of the 1880s drove many westwards to the USA)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 19th century: Yiddish and Russian, literally ‘devastation’, from pogromit ‘destroy by the use of violence’