flood

Summary

flood ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,305 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• flood is a type of natural disaster^[2].
• flood is a type of high tide^[3].
• flood's Commons category is recorded as Floods^[4].
• flood's has cause is recorded as cloud burst^[5].
• flood's has cause is recorded as tsunami^[6].
• flood's has cause is recorded as river overflow^[7].
• flood's has cause is recorded as siphoning^[8].
• flood's has cause is recorded as rain^[9].
• flood's has cause is recorded as high tide^[10].
• flood's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Floods^[11].
• flood's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flood^[12].
• flood's Commons gallery is recorded as Flood^[13].
• flood's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as hazard=flooding^[14].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[15].
• flood's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[17].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[18].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[19].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[22].
• flood's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte^[23].
• flood's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox flood^[24].
• flood's has effect is recorded as death^[25].
• flood's has effect is recorded as property damage^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural disaster^[2] and high tide^[3].

Why It Matters

flood ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,305 views/month).^[1] flood has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] flood is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]