BLACK DEATH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe

Synonyms:

Black Death; Black Plague

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Black Death" is a kind of...):

bubonic plague; glandular plague; pestis bubonica (the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person)

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