1. black death - Noun
3. Black death - Proper noun
A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization. Pat Buchanan
Black Death sits upon an eminence, and numbers the silent peoples for their lord; yet the greater part of the troop remains. The Gortynian judge shakes them in his inexorable urn, demanding the truth with threats, and constrains them to speak out their whole lives' story. Statius
After c. 1350, the Black Death and following social upheavals seem to have accelerated language changes in Norway. Source: Internet
According to the accounts of the time the Black Death was extremely virulent, unlike the 19th and early 20th century bubonic plague. Source: Internet
After the Black Death, monumental construction in Norway came to a standstill. Source: Internet
As the Black Death ravaged Europe, Jacob hypothesized that the plague was being transmitted by visitors coming to the port from overseas. Source: Internet