Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xenocide

/ˈzɛnəsaɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: xeno-cide
IPA: /ˈzɛnəsaɪd/

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The killing of a stranger or foreigner.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The genocide of an entire alien species.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

American usage; Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As notorious examples of ritual xenocide, suffice it to mention the foreigners sacrificed on the altar of the goddess Artemis in Colchis, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, 4.45) as well as the ritual of beheading strangers when the reaping season drew to a close, performed by the legendary Lityerses, king of Phyrgia. [...] [In] an act of ritual xenocide in a Cossack villafe [...] Cossacks kill a Turkish woman[.]"
"The age that began with one xenocide attempted had now ended with other xenocides prevented or, at least, postponed."

Etymology

From xeno- + -cide.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: xeno
Suffix: cide

Usage

Inflected Forms

xenocides (plural)

Derived Forms

xenocidal

Questions

How do you pronounce xenocide?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈzɛnəsaɪd/.
What does xenocide mean?: The killing of a stranger or foreigner.
Where does xenocide come from?: From xeno- + -cide.

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