See Also: melo(dictionary)
melo-tragedy(dictionary)
disaster(dictionary)
disaster(dictionary)
disaster(medicine)
Disaster supplies kit(health)
disaster planning(medicine)
Hindenburg disaster(encyclopedia)
disaster area(dictionary)
Disaster Supplies Kit(medicine)

melo-tragedy (iou) and disaster (iou)


melo-tragedy (iou)



melo-tragedy noun. rare. E19.
[from Greek melos song, Music + -O- + TRAGEDY.]
A tragic play in which songs occur; an operatic tragedy.

disaster (iou)



disaster noun & verb. L16.
[French desastre or its source Italian disastro, from dis- DIS- 2 + astro star (from Latin astrum). Cf. ill-starred.]
A. noun.
(A) sudden or great misfortune; an event of ruinous or distressing Nature, a calamity; complete failure. L16.
D. Fraser Disaster always brought out the best in Churchill. Daily Telegraph The Houghton Main colliery disaster in which five miners died.
An unfavourable aspect of a star or planet. E-M17.
Comb.: disaster area: in which a major disaster has recently occurred; disaster movie colloq. a Film whose plot centres on a major disaster such as a flood, fire, aircrash, etc.
b. verb trans. Bring disaster on; ruin; cause serious injury to. Usu. in pass. Now rare. L16.