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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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);
[syn: the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

the Great Hunger n 1: 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) [syn: the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity]