Usually means: Sudden event causing widespread destruction.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word disaster:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. disaster: Merriam-Webster
  2. disaster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disaster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disaster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disaster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disaster, disaster: Wordnik
  7. disaster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disaster: Wiktionary
  9. disaster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disaster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disaster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disaster, disaster: Dictionary.com
  13. disaster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disaster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disaster (Dave song), Disaster (JoJo song), Disaster (TNG episode), Disaster (disambiguation), Disaster (film), Disaster, Disaster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disaster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disaster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disaster: Rhymezone
  19. disaster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disaster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disaster: FreeDictionary.org
  22. disaster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Disaster: The Word Detective
  24. disaster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. disaster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. disaster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Disaster: Disaster Management
  2. disaster: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disaster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. disaster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. disaster: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disaster: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disaster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. disaster: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
noun:  An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
noun:  A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.

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