Black Plague
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- noun
- /blæk pleɪg/
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Peste Negra
- It was the Black Plague, the swelling kind, that swept into that town, and soon all around it, like an invisible fire.
- Black Plague killed
The dead outnumbered the living and that was the Baba or also called the Black Plague, right, Right.
- The dead outnumbered the living and that was the Baba or also called the Black Plague, right, Right.
- There was some discussions with regard to the Black Plague being a blood type specific.
- Like for all the we have with racism and sexism and a lot of terror, we've got plenty of Meanwhile they had the Black plague.
Examples
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The black plague ravaged the continent.
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I survived the black plague.
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I lived through the black plague.
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The Black Plague killed four out of ten people.
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If the United States falls, the death and destruction that will occur will rival historical catastrophes like the Black Plague and WWII.
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The tradition that a worker should hand down his job to his children and grandchildren went out when labor shortages caused by the Black Plague broke the medieval guild system.
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I enjoyed this book because we hear about many illnesses that existed in other countries, like the infamous Black Plague, but we normally don't study the epidemics of our own country.
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The Black Plague swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing millions of people.
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Many historians study the effects of the Black Plague on society during the Middle Ages.
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The Black Plague is often considered one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
Synonyms
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A very serious disease that spreads quickly and kills many people
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A very large disease outbreak that kills many people
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A serious disease that spreads and causes fever and painful swollen glands
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A large outbreak of plague in Europe in the mid 1300s that killed millions
A serious disease causing fever and painful swollen glands spread by fleas from rats
Surface Forms
Morphology
Black + plague
The phrase is compositionally built from 'black' (a descriptive adjective) + 'plague' (contagious, often fatal disease), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a particularly severe epidemic disease; the term functions as a name for that historical outbreak but does not carry an idiosyncratic idiomatic meaning. Many languages use a similar descriptive name for the historical epidemic, which supports its straightforward, compositional interpretation.
Etymology
Black Plague may come from the dark black spots and rotten flesh people saw on the bodies of the sick. Because those terrible marks stood out, people began to call the illness black and a plague, so the name now refers to the 'deadly disease' that killed millions in the Middle Ages.