black death

Questions about black death

What is another word for black death?

It depends which black death you mean. In the sense “the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe”, the synonyms are Black Plague. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of black death?

WordNet records no antonym for black death. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for black death come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of black death

• Full entry for black deathAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for black deathWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.