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Meaning of "murrain" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MURRAIN

From Old French morine, from morir to die, from Latin morī.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MURRAIN

murrain  [ˈmʌrɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MURRAIN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Murrain is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MURRAIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Murrain

Murrain /ˈmɜrɪn/ is an antiquated term for various infectious diseases affecting cattle and sheep. It literally means "death" and was used in medieval times to represent just that. The population of that era had no way of identifying specific diseases in their livestock so they simply put all illnesses under one heading. Murrain does not refer to any specific disease but was an umbrella term for a number of different diseases, including rinderpest, erysipelas, foot-and-mouth disease, anthrax, and streptococcus infections. Some of the diseases could also affect humans. The term murrain was also used generally to refer to an epidemic of such a disease. There were major sheep and cattle murrains in Europe during the 14th century, which combined with the Little Ice Age resulted in widespread famine during the Great Famine of 1315-1317, weakening the population of Europe before the onset of the Black Death in 1348. The term murrain is also used in some Bible translations relating to the fifth plague brought upon Egypt.

Definition of murrain in the English dictionary

The definition of murrain in the dictionary is any plaguelike disease in cattle. Other definition of murrain is a plague.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MURRAIN


aspirin
ˈæsprɪn
brethren
ˈbrɛðrɪn
brin
brɪn
Catherine
ˈkæθrɪn
chagrin
ˈʃæɡrɪn
doctrine
ˈdɒktrɪn
Drin
drɪn
Erin
ˈɪərɪn
florin
ˈflɒrɪn
foreign
ˈfɒrɪn
grin
ɡrɪn
Katharine
ˈkæθərɪn
Katherine
ˈkæθərɪn
Kirin
ˈkiːˈrɪn
mandarin
ˈmændərɪn
Marin
ˈmɑːrɪn
navarin
ˈnævərɪn
sovereign
ˈsɒvrɪn
Turin
tjʊəˈrɪn
urine
ˈjʊərɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MURRAIN

murmurously
murphies
murphy
Murphy bed
Murphy-O´Connor
Murphy´s law
murr
murra
murragh
murram
Murray
Murray cod
murre
murree
murrelet
murrey
murrhine
murrhine glass
murri
murrine

WORDS THAT END LIKE MURRAIN

all-terrain
Bahrain
brain
Claude Lorrain
constrain
darrain
drain
drivetrain
grain
Lorrain
powertrain
rain
refrain
souterrain
strain
subterrain
terrain
train
wagon train
water on the brain

Synonyms and antonyms of murrain in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «murrain» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MURRAIN

Find out the translation of murrain to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of murrain from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «murrain» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

murrain
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

murrain
570 millions of speakers

English

murrain
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

murrain
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

murrain
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ящур
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

morrinha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মড়ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Murrain
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

murrain
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

家畜伝染病
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

murrain
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Murrain
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bịnh dịch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

murrain
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुरुअन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

salgın hastalık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

afta epizootica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pomór
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ящур
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ciumă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

murrain
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pes
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

murrain
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

murrain
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of murrain

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MURRAIN»

The term «murrain» is normally little used and occupies the 120.536 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MURRAIN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «murrain» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «murrain» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about murrain

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MURRAIN»

Discover the use of murrain in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to murrain and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Responsive Environments
Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environemnt itself. This book is a practical attempt to show how this can be done.
Sue McGlynn, Graham Smith, Alan Alcock, 2013
2
An Essay on the Cattle Murrain and Poleaxe Murder, or ...
William Webber. disease of an infectious or generative nature, is clearly a misnomer, calculated to convey an erroneous impression in more ways than one, for polled cattle are equally liable to the plague; and it is otherwise an ineligible term, ...
William Webber, 1865
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Economic and biological interactions in pre-industrial ...
massive cattle murrain swept across Europe, stiking England in roughly 1319 and affecting important sources of protein (meat, milk, cheese) and leather. Prices Due to the scarcity of grain, prices rose sharply. (Fig. A) The average price for a ...
Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini. Settimana di studio, Simonetta Cavaciocchi, 2010
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The Sanitary Review, and Journal of Public Health
complaints, under the head of cattle plagues. 1. A catarrhal affection. 2. A pulmonary complaint, with typhoid symptoms. 3. A highly contagious typhus, which is the real cattle plague or murrain of the steppe. Dr. Greenhow enumerates more ...
‎1857
5
Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting ...
On the Bloody Murrain. 4 In the year 1819, the Society having been informed by the late John Cox, of New Garden, Chester County, that the Bloody Murrain prevailed to a considerable extent in that county, it was resolved to publish a request ...
Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1826
6
The Ohio Cultivator
Bloody Murrain— Old Butcher's Opinion. In the Cultivator of April 1st, I noticed some remarks from C. Rathbun with regard to Bloody Murrain. lie is correct in the statement of the leech being the cause. I suppose, as I have got to be a farmer, ...
M. B. Bateham, 1859
7
Two "compoti" of the Lancashire and Cheshire manors of Henry ...
murrain, hides 8s. 8d.; and 1 cow and 1 bull delivered to the Instaurator : 37 cows and 1 bull remain. Also 1 ox of addition, delivered to Henry Hare. Also 12 yearlings of the remainder : of which 1 in murrain, hide 1od. ; 6 steers and 5 heifers ...
Chetham Society, 1884
8
Annals of British Legislation
It is identical with the Lungenseuche or pulmonary murrain now or lately prevailing in Mecklenburg, Holstein, and other continental countries. 5. It has no affinity with the disease called in Germany Rinderpest or steppe-murrain, with which it ...
Leone Levi, 1858
9
The London Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medical ...
Public and private opinion is still largely unsettled concerning the nature of the murrain now unhappily prevalent in the kingdom. The doubt seems mainly to arise from a failure to distinguish with sufficient clearness the several varieties of  ...
‎1865
10
The Farmer's Cabinet, and American Herd Book
murrain. Decrease of appetite, a stretching out of the neck as if there was a difficulty in swallowing ; a shaking of the head, as if the ear* were tickled ; a hanging down of the ears, and deafness, a dullness of the eyes, and a moving to and fro, ...
‎1837

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MURRAIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term murrain is used in the context of the following news items.
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Erdington woman jailed for stealing handbags from TK Maxx in …
Franklyn Murrain, aged 52, of George Road, Erdington, admitted stealing Mali curtains worth £59.98 from B&M Store in Priory Square and ... «Sutton Coldfield Observer, Jul 15»
2
Kent Show visitors reach 77000
Other areas that benefitted from the warm sunny days on Friday and Saturday was the Woodland Area, hosted in the beautifully cool Murrain ... «Farming UK, Jul 15»
3
Family still waits for answers a year after brutal murder
British businessman Keith Murrain was the victim of an ... His heartbroken mother Josephine Murrain, 84, still waits for answers at her ... «The Voice Online, Jun 15»
4
The Dantean Anomaly
Herds and flocks were devastated by murrain, a medieval term encompassing foot-and-mouth, anthrax and other diseases. Although little ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
Net closes on killers of Birmingham businessman Keith Murrain as …
And the Birmingham Mail can exclusively reveal that an arrest has been made – ONE YEAR on from the brutal murder of Keith Murrain. «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
6
Opera Carolina, Mint Museum and ArtSi showcase Latino arts in …
Poets featured are Kurma Murrain-Collins, Irania Patterson, and Jose Vasquez. Opera Carolina artists performing are Jonathan White, Corey ... «Charlotte Observer, May 15»
7
13-year-old killed in accidental shooting, Baton Rouge police say
21, 2015, on a charge of negligent homicide after police say that while "working on his handgun," Forbes shot 13-year-old Murrain Hawkins to ... «NOLA.com, Feb 15»
8
David Cameron: Keith Murrain's family need justice from Jamaica
“We will continue to raise Mr Murrain's case with the Jamaican ... While the Murrain family, from Aston, welcome the PM's intervention, ... «Birmingham Mail, Feb 15»
9
Keith Murrain murder: Police urged to investigate UK link to his death
Mr Murrain's family have publicly criticised the way the case has been handled on the sunshine island and have called on West Midlands ... «Birmingham Mail, Feb 15»
10
Boston police used self-defense in fatal 2013 shooting, DA concludes
So they pulled up next to Dookhran and his friend Christopher Murrain and asked to talk, according to the officers, Murrain, and witnesses ... «Boston Globe, Jan 15»

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