What does "catastrophe" mean?
Catastrophe: The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
Additional senses
- 2.(Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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