famine vs the Great Calamity

famine and the Great Calamity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
famine	Yes	No	No	No
the Great Calamity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, the Great Calamity is a hyponym of famine; that is, the Great Calamity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than famine:

famine: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
the Great Calamity: 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)

Other hyponyms of famine include the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine.

famine (noun)	the Great Calamity (noun)
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death	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)
an acute insufficiency

famine vs the Great Calamity

famine and the Great Calamity both are nouns.

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