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Definition: Black Plague |
Black PlagueNoun1. The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Black PlagueSynonym: Black Death (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Black Plague |
| English words defined with "black plague": Edward III ♦ Four Horsemen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "black plague": Blains. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I attended Julliard, I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. (Beetlejuice; writing credit: Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren.) | |
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black plague | 298 |
black plague picture | 26 |
history black plague | 6 |
black plague symptom | 3 |
information about the black plague | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "black plague"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ペガスス座 (Pegasus, Pekingology, pessimism, pessimist, pessimistic). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ペスト . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ackblay agueplay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-k-l-l-p-u" | |
-3 letters: blackleg, culpable, packable, placable, pullback. | |
-4 letters: bluecap, bulkage, bullace, capable, package. | |
-5 letters: alulae, backup, bacula, begall, beluga, buckle, bullae, cubage, culpae, paella, palace, paleal, plagal, plague, ullage. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 63 6B 50 6C 61 67 75 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010000 01101100 01100001 01100111 01110101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a c k   P l a g u e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0050 006C 0061 0067 0075 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36786769772507867738771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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