单词 | post-holocaust |
释义 | > as lemmaspost-holocaust post-holocaust adj. Brit. /(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈhɒləkɔːst/ , U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈhɑləˌkɔst/ , /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈhɑləˌkɑst/ , /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈhoʊləˌkɔst/ , /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈhoʊləˌkɑst/ (a) following a holocaust (in various senses); (b) spec. (frequently in form post-Holocaust) following the Nazi genocide of the Jews in the Second World War (1939–45).ΚΠ 1933 Helena (Montana) Independent 28 May 12/2 ‘Big Jim’ Morton, paroled hero of the Ohio penitentiary fire, is being hunted by the police again... The difference between the post-holocaust ‘Big Jim’ and the pre-holocaust ‘Big Jim’ was supposed..to be the difference between the Little Lord Fauntleroy and Captain Kidd. 1968 Punch 12 June 865/3 A misfit poet..gets accidentally projected forward..and finds a post-holocaust world that has returned to the ways of the Middle Ages. 1972 German Q. 45 823/2 The authors in this ‘portrait of a community in exile’—the post-holocaust German emigré community—include Thomas Mann, [etc.]. 2004 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 3 May 1 b USM's Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies. < as lemmas |
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