English Explanatory Dictionary

Killing Fields

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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
  1. plural of killing field
noun
  1. plural of Killing field

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Killing Fields the Killing Fields

Etymology

Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984.

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