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    THE GREAT HUNGER

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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)play

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    Hypernyms ("the Great Hunger" 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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