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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Black Death
an outbreak of bubonic plague that spread over Europe and Asia in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population.

Etymology: (1815–25)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Black Death, Black Plague
the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe

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1. black death
a pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. black death
a name given to a succession of fatal epidemics that devastated the world from China to Ireland in the 14th century, believed to be the same as the Oriental plague, though attended with peculiar symptoms; the most serious was that of 1348, which, as is reckoned, stripped England alone of one-third of its inhabitants.

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