The Great Starvation (Noun)

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).

Classification

Nouns denoting natural events.

Synonyms

• The Great Calamity
• The Irish Famine
• The Great Hunger

Hypernyms

• Famine