# Kristallnacht

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #65,247

## Definitions
1. The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.

## Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).

## Source
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