Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

killing fields

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables
killing -fields
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

noun

plural of killing field

noun

plural of Killing field

Etymology

Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984.

Inflected Forms

the Killing Fields (canonical)

Questions

What does killing fields mean?
A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.
Where does killing fields come from?
Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984.

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