Usually means: Widespread disease causing death, suffering.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word pestilence:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pestilence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pestilence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pestilence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pestilence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pestilence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pestilence, pestilence: Wordnik
  7. pestilence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pestilence, pestilence: Wiktionary
  9. pestilence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pestilence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pestilence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pestilence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Pestilence (band), Pestilence (comics), Pestilence (disambiguation), Pestilence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pestilence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pestilence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pestilence: Rhymezone
  17. Pestilence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pestilence: Free Dictionary
  19. pestilence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pestilence: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. pestilence: Dictionary.com
  22. pestilence: Online Etymology Dictionary

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  1. pestilence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pestilence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Pestilence: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. pestilence: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Pestilence: Drug Medical Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pestilence: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

(Note: See pestilences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
noun:  (archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
noun:  The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.

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