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

1 sense of the irish famine

Sense 1
the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity -- (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))
       => famine -- (a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death)