The meaning of MASSACRE is the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty.
Boston Massacre, (), skirmish between British troops and a crowd in Boston, Massachusetts. Widely publicized, it contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in much of colonial North America in the years before the American Revolution.
Although a massacre is hard to define, we mostly use the term to describe a killing of a large number of victims, along with terms as “war crime” or “crime against humanity”. The Ottoman Empire is responsible for a large number of horrible massacres throughout history.
MASSACRE definition: the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
A massacre is the killing of many people in a violent and cruel way. Her mother died in the massacre.
- the wanton killing of a large number of esp. unresisting human beings. 2. a general slaughter of animals. 3. the inflicting of great damage or defeat. 4. to kill in a massacre; slaughter. 5. to injure thoroughly. mas′sa crer (-krər) n. syn: See slaughter.
MASSACRE meaning: 1. an act of killing a lot of people: 2. a bad defeat, especially in sport: 3. to kill many…. Learn more.
Definition of massacre noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
George Stravelakis was an enslaved Greek from the island of Chios who rose in society to become the Prime Minister of Tunisia in the 1860s.