mass murder

Questions about mass murder

What does mass murder mean?

mass murder means "the savage and excessive killing of many people".

What is another word for mass murder?

Close synonyms include slaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mass murder a common word?

mass murder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.