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.

---

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

---

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)

---

famine

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

Translations

famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → hambre f; hambruna

---

famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → famine f

---

famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → Hungersnot f

---

famine [ˈfæmɪn] n → carestia

---

famine

n famine [ˈfӕmin]

(a) great lack or shortage especially of food Some parts of the world suffer regularly from famine. hongersnood, gebrek, nood نَقْص، مَجاعَه، جوع глад hladomor hungersnød; sult die Hungersnot λιμός hambre, hambruna näljahäda قحطی nälänhätä famine רָעָב अकाल gladovanje, nestašica éhínség bahaya kelaparan hallæri carestia 飢きん 기근, 기아 badas bads kebuluran hongersnood hungersnød, matmangel głód fome foamete голод hladomor lakota glad hungersnöd ความอดอยาก kıtlık, açlık 飢荒 голод غذا کی شدید قلت ،قحط nạn đói kém 饥荒