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BUTCHERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The savage and excessive killing of many people
Synonyms:
butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("butchery" is a kind of...):
execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butchery"):
battue; bloodbath; bloodletting; bloodshed (indiscriminate slaughter)
Instance hyponyms:
Alamo (a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico)
Battle of Little Bighorn; Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer's Last Stand; Little Bighorn (a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command)
Derivation:
butcher (kill (animals) usually for food consumption)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The business of a butcher
Synonyms:
butchering; butchery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("butchery" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Meronyms (parts of "butchery"):
slaughter (the killing of animals (as for food))
Derivation:
butcher (kill (animals) usually for food consumption)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A building where animals are butchered
Synonyms:
abattoir; butchery; shambles; slaughterhouse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("butchery" is a kind of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Derivation:
butcher (kill (animals) usually for food consumption)
