book burning

See also: book-burning

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Noun

book burning (countable and uncountable, plural book burnings)

1. (literally) A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
2. (by extension, idiomatic) Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
   • 1987, “Exhuming McCarthy”, in Document (R.E.M. No. 5), performed by R.E.M.:

     Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)

Synonyms

• bibliocide

Translations

book burning

Chinese: Mandarin: 焚書 / 焚书 (zh) (fénshū) Danish: bogbrænding c Dutch: boekverbranding (nl) f Finnish: kirjarovio (fi) French: autodafé (fr) m German: Bücherverbrennung (de) f Hungarian: könyvégetés (hu) Icelandic: bókabrenna f Japanese: 焚書 (ja) (ふんしょ, funsho) Korean: 분서(焚書) (ko) (Bunseo) Norwegian: Bokmål: bokbål n Nynorsk: bokbål n Polish: palenie książek n Swedish: bokbål (sv) n