BLACK PLAGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Black Plague mean? 

• BLACK PLAGUE (noun)
  The noun BLACK PLAGUE 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 PLAGUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK PLAGUE (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 Plague" 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)