black death

1. 1.

   the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe

   SynonymsBlack Plague

   Broaderbubonic plague

Questions about black death

What does black death mean?

black death means "the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe".

What is another word for black death?

Close synonyms include Black Plague. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black death a common word?

black death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.