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the great calamity is a noun meaning "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)". It carries one recorded sense.
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)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for the great calamity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.