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catastrophë

catastrophë is the alternative spelling of catastrophe.

Meaning of catastrophe

Noun

catastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural catastrophes)

  1. Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
    • The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophe.
  2. A disaster beyond expectations.
  3. The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
    • Pat : he comes like the Cataſtrophe of the old Comedie : my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a ſighe like Tom o’ Bedlam.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  4. A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.

Forms of catastrophë

pluralcatastrophes
pluralcatastrophës

Questions about catastrophë

What is catastrophë the alternative spelling of?
Catastrophë is the alternative spelling of catastrophe.

Words near catastrophë in the dictionary

  1. catastrophizer
  2. catastrophizers
  3. catastrophizes
  4. catastrophizing
  5. catastrophy
  6. catastrophë
  7. catastroscope
  8. catataxis
  9. catatectic
  10. catathermometer
  11. catathermometers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catastrophë (page history and authors); catastrophe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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