black death

English - Turkish

Definition of black death in English Turkish dictionary: veba [tar.]; (Tıp) kara ölüm; Veba
Prag mucize eseri olarak on dördüncü yüzyılda vebadan kurtuldu. - Miraculously, during the fourteenth century, Prague was spared from the Black Death.
the black death: black death

English - English

Definition of black death in English English dictionary: A pandemic outbreak (often attributed to bubonic plague) throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe; An outbreak of bubonic plague that was pandemic throughout Europe and much of Asia in the 14th century. the illness that killed large numbers of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th century bubonic plague, plague (2). Fierce and widespread outbreak of plague, probably bubonic and pneumonic, that ravaged Europe during the 14th century. The epidemic originated in Asia and was transmitted to Europeans in 1347 when a Turkic army besieging a Genoese trading post in the Crimea catapulted plague-infested corpses into the town. It spread from the Mediterranean ports and ravaged all of Europe between 1347 and 1351. Renewed outbreaks occurred in 1361-63, 1369-71, 1374-75, 1390, and 1400. Towns and cities were more heavily hit than the countryside, and whole communities were sometimes destroyed. Much of Europe's economy was devastated. About one-third of the European population, or a total of 25 million people, died in the Black Death; severe epidemic of the bubonic plague that broke out in the middle ages and killed nearly half the population of Europe; bubonic plague A disease prevalent in the middle ages, buth still occurring in third world ountries, transmitted by fleas from rats; The combination of bubonic and pneumonic plagues that entered Europe along Eastern trade routes, sweeping across Europe between 1347-1350 Spread by rats carrying infected fleas, the Plague eliminated between one-fourth and one-third of the population in its first wave Subsequent outbreaks, which continued into the seventeenth century were far less severe The Black Death had profound effects on all aspects of medieval life and deeply affected the psychological outlook of Europeans; the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe; A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century; Noun An epidemic of Bubonic Plague that swept through Europe and Asia in the 14th Century, killing many; bubonic plague, which devastated Europe in the 14th Century AD; Common name for bubonic plague, which ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages, October of 1347-c 1400; typhus; The Black Death was a mid-fourteenth-century disease (primarily bubonic plague) epidemic that ravaged Europe and helped cause an economic decline; Bubonic plague; also known as just the "plague"; Bubonic and Pneumonic Plagues that ravaged Europe starting in the mid-14th Century and continuing with lesser outbreaks through the 19th Century; the Bubonic Plague was named for the "bubos" or red colored rings that appeared on the victim and it was not as fatal as the Pneumonic Plague which, as the name indicates, involved pneumonia symptons; A phrase used in the Middle Ages to describe bubonic plague (The 'blackness' was caused by bleeding under the skin Over 50 per cent of all cases were fatal)

Turkish - English

Definition of black death in Turkish English dictionary: the black death

black death

Turkish pronunciation

bläk deth

Synonyms

black plague, plague, the plague

Pronunciation

/ˈblak ˈdeᴛʜ/ /ˈblæk ˈdɛθ/

Etymology

[ 'blak ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; akin to Old High German blah black, and probably to Latin flagrare to burn, Greek phlegein.