classicide

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noun

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounclassicide (countable and uncountable, plural classicides)

plural classicides

  1. countableuncountableThe deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
    1 more example

    Any study of nationalism must also take into account relationships between other ideologies and forms of genocide, whether we examine the politicides and classicides of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, the mass killing of native peoples by colonists in the Americas before the age of modern nationalism, or indeed the massacres of seventeenth-century religious wars.

    2017, John Hutchinson, Nationalism and War

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APA

classicide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/classicide

MLA

“classicide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/classicide. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “classicide,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/classicide.

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