BLACK DEATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Black Death mean? 

• BLACK DEATH (noun)
  The noun BLACK DEATH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BLACK DEATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK DEATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Black Death; Black Plague

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)

 Context examples 

“Would that cure the black death, master?” asked Jenkin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other theories for collapse of the colonies have included climate change – the Little Ice Age, a sustained period of lower temperatures, began in the 14th century – as well as unsustainable farming methods and even the Black Death.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

The black death is the best friend that ever the common folk had in England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he was always a poor, fond, silly creature, was Peter, though we are beholden to him for helping to bury our second son Wat, who was a 'prentice to him at Lymington in the year of the Black Death. But who are you, young sir?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)