black death

Speech parts

1. black death - Noun

3. Black death - Proper noun

Meaning

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Black Plague bubonic plague plague pestilence disease bubonic blight epidemic sickness madness pest leprosy influenza measles contagion
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Antonyms

almighty demolisher celestial exterminator divine demolisher eternal destroyer eternal slaughterer godly end
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Hypernyms

bubonic plague glandular plague pestis bubonica

Examples

The 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

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