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eliticide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
eliti-cide
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The targeted killing of the leadership of a group (to cripple it), for example at the beginning of a genocide or during a revolution.

Etymology

From elite + -icide. First used in 1992 by British reporter Michael Nicholson to describe the Bijeljina massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Inflected Forms

eliticides (plural) elitocide (alternative)

Questions

What does eliticide mean?
The targeted killing of the leadership of a group (to cripple it), for example at the beginning of a genocide or during a revolution.
Where does eliticide come from?
From elite + -icide. First used in 1992 by British reporter Michael Nicholson to describe the Bijeljina massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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