any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) any epidemic disease with a high death rate a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague)
Plague or the plague is a very infectious disease which usually results in death. The patient has a severe fever and swellings on his or her body. a fresh outbreak of plague
An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the disease "plague"
A plague of unpleasant things is a large number of them that arrive or happen at the same time. The city is under threat from a plague of rats = epidemic
n In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness