English noun: the Great Calamity | |||
1. | the Great Calamity (event) 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 Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine | ||
Broader (hypernym) | famine | ||