Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the irish famine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: the irish -famine
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

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)

Synonyms

the great hunger the great starvation the great calamity

Questions

What does the irish famine mean?: 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)

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