| NOUN | event | the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity | a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight |
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| Meaning | 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). | |
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| Synonyms | the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity | |
| Broader | famine | A severe shortage / shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death |
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