Usually means: Plague pandemic, devastated Europe, Asia.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. black death, the Black Death, the black death: Merriam-Webster
  2. Black Death: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Black Death: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Black Death, the Black Death: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Black Death: Vocabulary.com
  6. Black Death: Wordnik
  7. the Black Death, the Black death: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Black Death: Wiktionary
  9. Black Death: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Black Death: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Black Death, the Black Death: Dictionary.com
  12. Black Death: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Black Death (American band), Black Death (band), Black Death (disambiguation), Black Death (film), Black Death (game), Black Death (song), Black Death, Black death, The Black Death (novel), The Black Death, The black death: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Black death: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. Black death: Rhymezone
  16. Black death: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Black Death: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. Black Death: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. black death: FreeDictionary.org
  20. black death: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Black Death: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. black death: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Black Death: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The black death, black death: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Black Death: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Black Death, Death, black: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. The black death, black death: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Black Death, Death, black: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. black death: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Black Death)

noun:  (pathology, historical) A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.

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