Usually means: Sudden disaster causing extensive damage.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word catastrophe:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. catastrophe: Merriam-Webster
  2. catastrophe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catastrophe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catastrophe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catastrophe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catastrophe, catastrophe: Wordnik
  7. catastrophe: Wiktionary
  8. catastrophe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. catastrophe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. catastrophe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. catastrophe: Dictionary.com
  12. catastrophe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. catastrophe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Catastrophe (Morris and McGann book), Catastrophe (TV series), Catastrophe (book), Catastrophe (drama), Catastrophe (musician), Catastrophe (play), Catastrophe, The Catastrophe (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Catastrophe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. catastrophe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. catastrophe: Rhymezone
  18. catastrophe, catastrophe (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. catastrophe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. catastrophe: FreeDictionary.org
  21. catastrophe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. catastrophe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. catastrophe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. catastrophe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  25. Catastrophe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. catastrophe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catastrophe: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catastrophe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catastrophe: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catastrophe: Cats

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Catastrophe: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

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

(Note: See catastrophes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
noun:  (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.
noun:  (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
noun:  (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.

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