Associations to the word «Auschwitz»

Wiktionary

AUSCHWITZ, proper noun. A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.
AUSCHWITZ, proper noun. A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

Dictionary definition

AUSCHWITZ, noun. A Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats