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Calamity
//kəˈlæmɪti// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An event resulting in great loss.
"Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie."
- 2 an event resulting in great loss and misfortune wordnet
- 3 The distress that results from some disaster.
"They were behind twice, first in the 11th minute when James Morrison scored a goal that was a personal calamity for Hart, and then four minutes into the second half when Kenny Miller eluded Gary Cahill to score with a splendid left-foot drive."
Etymology
From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).
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