POGROM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pogrom mean? 

• POGROM (noun)
  The noun POGROM has 1 sense:

1. organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)

  Familiarity information: POGROM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POGROM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pogrom" is a kind of...):

persecution (the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion))