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English noun: the Great Hunger

1. the Great Hunger (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)


Synonymsthe Great Calamity, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine


Broader (hypernym)famine









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