THE GREAT CALAMITY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

Synonyms:

the Great Calamity; the Great Hunger; the Great Starvation; the Irish Famine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("the Great Calamity" is a kind of...):

famine (a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death)

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