Definitions
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Word origin
From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).
Used in a sentence
“Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie.”
“And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Major disaster”8 letters
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