flood

overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry
Thing form_of_event Q8068
flood
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flood

Summary

flood is a form of event[1]. flood draws 19,589 Wikipedia views per month (form_of_event category, ranking #1,226 of 32).[2]

Key Facts

  • flood's instance of is recorded as form of event[3].
  • flood is a type of natural disaster[4].
  • flood is a type of high tide[5].
  • flood's Commons category is recorded as Floods[6].
  • flood's has cause is recorded as cloud burst[7].
  • flood's has cause is recorded as tsunami[8].
  • flood's has cause is recorded as river overflow[9].
  • flood's has cause is recorded as siphoning[10].
  • flood's has cause is recorded as rain[11].
  • flood's has cause is recorded as high tide[12].
  • flood's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Floods[13].
  • flood's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flood[14].
  • flood's Commons gallery is recorded as Flood[15].
  • flood's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as hazard=flooding[16].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[19].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[20].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24].
  • flood's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[25].
  • flood's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox flood[26].
  • flood's has effect is recorded as death[27].

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Definition and Type

flood's instance of is recorded as form of event[3]. Recorded subclass of include natural disaster[4] and high tide[5].

Why It Matters

flood draws 19,589 Wikipedia views per month (form_of_event category, ranking #1,226 of 32).[2] flood has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] flood is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 182
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX527375
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'az
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX527375"
  2. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → vineyard
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → ARD-Hauptstadtstudio
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q296515, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 10w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → form of event
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q108586636]]"
  5. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4NVXzp
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 8079
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 8079, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107284936|floods (#107284936)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary]"
  7. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → flood, floods
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: flood, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925704|flood (#289925704)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  8. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000841-povodne
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000841-povodne, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1858, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  10. 22w ago · Nat (WDU) · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Euronews topic id → flood
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Gujin Tushu Jicheng +6
    Subclass of → natural disaster, high tide
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/29431|batch #29431]]: UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID for extreme weather events"
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