There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
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Pestilence
//ˈpɛstələn(t)s//
Synonyms for "pestilence" (64 found)
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12 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 32 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- pes noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λοιμός noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мор noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Catalan
1 entries- pestilència noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 大札 noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- 瘟疫 noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Czech
1 entries- mor noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Danish
1 entries- pest noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Esperanto
1 entries- pesto noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Finnish
2 entries- kulkutauti noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- rutto noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
French
1 entries- peste noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Georgian
1 entries- ჭირი noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
German
2 entries- Pest noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- Seuche noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Greek
3 entries- επιδημία noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- λοιμός noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- πανδημία noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַגֵּפָה noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Hindi
4 entries- जनपदमारी noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- ताऊन noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- महामारी noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- वबा noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Irish
2 entries- aicíd noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- plá noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Italian
1 entries- pestilenza noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Japanese
1 entries- 疫病 noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Latin
2 entries- luēs noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- pestis noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Macedonian
3 entries- мо́рија noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- мор noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- чу́ма noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Māori
2 entries- mate urutā noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- urutā. noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Old English
2 entries- mancwealm noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- wōl noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خستهلق noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- طاعون noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Polish
2 entries- Zaraza name (the personification of pestilence)
- zaraza noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Portuguese
1 entries- peste noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Romanian
2 entries- ciumă noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- pestilență noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Russian
2 entries- мор noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- чума́ noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- plàigh noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Spanish
1 entries- pestilencia noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Swedish
2 entries- farsot noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
- pest noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Turkish
1 entries- salgın noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎗𐎌𐎔 noun (any highly contagious epidemic disease)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
"Let the minutes show that Mary, the cat, the dog and the hidden pestilence in this home have all attended the family meeting," said Tom.
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Scarce stand the vessels hauled upon the beach, / and bent on marriages the young men vie / to till new settlements, while I to each / due law dispense and dwelling place supply, / when from a tainted quarter of the sky / rank vapours, gathering, on my comrades seize, / and a foul pestilence creeps down from high / on mortal limbs and standing crops and trees, / a season black with death, and pregnant with disease.
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And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days' journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.
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