• n.
    ⦿an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    lexical concept
  • the earthquake was a disaster
  • the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:calamity
  2. enl:cataclysm
  3. enl:catastrophe
  4. enl:disaster
  5. enl:tragedy
wn:interlingual indexili:i75130
wn:eq synonymdn:katastrofe§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • calamitycataclysmcatastrophe
  • calamitycataclysmcatastrophedisastertragedy