famine

fam·ine  (fmn)

n.

1. A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.

2. A drastic shortage; a dearth.

3. Severe hunger; starvation.

4. Archaic Extreme appetite.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from faim, hunger, from Latin fams.]

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famine

Noun

a severe shortage of food [Latin fames hunger]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	famine - an acute insufficiency dearth, shortage deficiency, lack, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
	2.	famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, disaster, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" the Great Calamity, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine - a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

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famine

noun hunger, want, starvation, deprivation, scarcity, dearth, destitution

Translations

famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → hambre f; hambruna

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famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → famine f

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famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → Hungersnot f

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famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → carestia