black plague

Questions about black plague

What is another word for black plague?

It depends which black plague 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 Death. 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 plague?

WordNet records no antonym for black plague. 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 plague 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 plague

• Full entry for black plagueAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for black plagueWhether 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.