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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
disaster/dɪˈzɑːstə(r)/

▶noun

1 a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life.

2 an event or fact leading to ruin or failure.
■ informal a complete failure: my perm is a total disaster.

– origin C16: from Ital. disastro ‘ill-starred event’, based on L. astrum ‘star’.

'disaster' also found in these Oxford entries:

annus horribilis - black - bound - Cassandra - casualty - cataclysm - close - cropper - debacle - doomster - fatal - ghoul - grief - humanitarian - IDP - Jeremiah - knell - number - picture - recipe - Red Cross - refugee - scale - spell - state - strike - toll - UNDRO - visitation

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