different between religious vs pogrom

English

Etymology

From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religi?sus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religi?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.?l?.d???s/
• Rhymes: -?d??s

Adjective

religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)

1. Concerning religion.

   • The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

2. Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.

3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.

Antonyms

• (concerning religion): irreligious, profane, secular, atheistic
• (committed to religion): areligious, irreligious
• (highly dedicated): casual

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Translations

Noun

religious (plural religious or religiouses)

1. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354:

     Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.

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Further reading

• religious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• religious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????????? (pogrom), from Russian ??????? (pogróm).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p????m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p????o?m/; alternatively IPA^(key): /?po????m/

Noun

pogrom (plural pogroms)

1. A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
2. An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.

Translations

Verb

pogrom (third-person singular simple present pogroms, present participle pogroming, simple past and past participle pogromed)

1. (transitive) To persecute or massacre a particular group of people.

French

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogroms)

1. pogrom

Hungarian

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (pogróm, “pogrom, massacre”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?po?rom]
• Hyphenation: pog?rom
• Rhymes: -om

Noun

pogrom (plural pogromok)

1. pogrom (riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews)

Declension

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References

Further reading

• pogrom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.?r?m/

Noun

pogrom m inan

1. resounding defeat
2. massacre
3. pogrom (ethnic riot)
4. (slang, humorous) an exam that turns out to be very hard and which most students fail

   Synonym: rze? niewini?tek

Declension

Further reading

• pogrom in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pogrom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogrons)

1. pogrom (riot against a particular ethnic or religious group)

Romanian

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (pogrom), from ??- (po-) +? ???????? (gromít?, “to smash, to sack”), from ???? (grom, “roar, thunder”), from Proto-Slavic *grom? (“thunder”).

Noun

pogrom n (plural pogromuri)

1. pogrom (riot against a particular ethnic or religious group)

Declension