noun
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)
• Syn: ↑the Irish Famine, ↑the Great Starvation, ↑the Great Calamity
• Hypernyms: ↑famine
Useful english dictionary. 2012.