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

1 sense of black hole of calcutta

Sense 1
Black Hole of Calcutta -- (a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive)
       INSTANCE OF=> keep, donjon, dungeon -- (the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress)