Noun the great calamity has 1 sense
  1. the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, 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)
    --1 is a kind of famine
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