- noun
-
- serious misfortune or disaster [Barron]
- an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster [Taisha]
More word meanings for calamity
from leading online dictionaries:
- Wiktionary:
- calamity @ wiktionary
- WordNet:
- calamity @ wordnet.princeton.edu
- Merriam-Webster Online:
- calamity @ M-W.com
- MSN Encarta:
- calamity @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- calamity @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
- calamity @ Answers.com
- Search for more definitions on Google:
- Google define:calamity
- Search for more definitions on Yahoo!:
- Yahoo! define:calamity
- Search for more definitions on Ask.com:
- Ask.com dictionary: calamity