What part of speech is calamities?

Calamities can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. calamities is a noun, plural of calamity.

Inflections

Noun

What does calamities mean?

Definitions

Noun

calamity - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

Examples of calamities

#   Sentence  
1. noun They had to strive against natural calamities for ages.
2. noun Serious calamities struck him his whole life.
3. noun "Do you think about the future?" "Yeah, I like futurology." "What do you think of the future of humanity?" "Well, if we survive major calamities, the future may be postbiological. But, that scenario may be a catastrophe for us organics."
4. noun The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity.
5. noun A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.
6. noun He prophesied that a dreadful calamity would happen.
7. noun There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
8. noun The anticipation is always worse than the calamity.
9. noun He died a slow horrible death after professing to all his friends that the cause of his calamity was that which he did in Jerusalem.
10. noun The children of Adam are limbs of each other, having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time afflicts one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, you are not worthy to be called by the name of "man".
11. noun The state of Rio de Janeiro has declared a "state of public calamity".
12. noun On this he burst forth into a tremendous passion, took leave of the mother with maledictions, and as he left the apartment, turned back to say to his weak, if not fickle, mistresss: “For you, madam, you will be a world's wonder”; a phrase by which some remarkable degree of calamity is usually implied.
13. noun Calamity Jane lived in California.
14. noun For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
15. noun Almost all American presidents have faced a crisis while in office, whether it’s a political scandal, natural disaster, economic calamity or terrorism.
Sentence  
noun
They had to strive against natural calamities for ages.
Serious calamities struck him his whole life.
"Do you think about the future?" "Yeah, I like futurology." "What do you think of the future of humanity?" "Well, if we survive major calamities, the future may be postbiological. But, that scenario may be a catastrophe for us organics."
The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity.
A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.
He prophesied that a dreadful calamity would happen.
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
The anticipation is always worse than the calamity.
He died a slow horrible death after professing to all his friends that the cause of his calamity was that which he did in Jerusalem.
The children of Adam are limbs of each other, having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time afflicts one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, you are not worthy to be called by the name of "man".
The state of Rio de Janeiro has declared a "state of public calamity".
On this he burst forth into a tremendous passion, took leave of the mother with maledictions, and as he left the apartment, turned back to say to his weak, if not fickle, mistresss: “For you, madam, you will be a world's wonder”; a phrase by which some remarkable degree of calamity is usually implied.
Calamity Jane lived in California.
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
Almost all American presidents have faced a crisis while in office, whether it’s a political scandal, natural disaster, economic calamity or terrorism.

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