English Explanatory Dictionary

Holodomor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government.
  2. А famine with mass deaths, especially one of the Soviet famines in 1921–22, 1932–33, or 1946–47.

Pronunciation

/ˌhɒlədəˈmɔː(ɹ)/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Holodomor.wav

Word forms

Holodomor Holodomors Golodomor

Etymology

Late 1980s, from Ukrainian Голодомо́р (Holodomór), from го́лод (hólod, “hunger, famine”) + мо́р (mór, “mass death, exhaustion”). Compare мори́ти (morýty, “kill by hunger or exhaustion”, verb). Not related to Holocaust.

Synonyms

artificial famine famine-genocide Great Famine terror famine terror-genocide

Related words

dekulakization Asharshylyk another famine that affected Kazakhstan during Soviet times
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