Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black_death

1 sense of black death

Sense 1
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)
       => bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague -- (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)