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famine
fam·ine F0028900 (făm′ĭn)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 famēs.]famine (ˈfæmɪn) n1. a severe shortage of food, as through crop failure or overpopulation2. acute shortage of anything3. violent hunger[C14: from Old French, via Vulgar Latin, from Latin famēs hunger]fam•ine (ˈfæm ɪn)
n. 1. extreme and general scarcity of food, esp. within a large geographical area. 2. any extreme scarcity. 3. Archaic. starvation. [1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, derivative of faim hunger (< Latin famēs)] famine, famish - Famine and famish come from Latin fames, "hunger."See also related terms for hunger.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  famine - an acute insufficiency dearth, shortagedeficiency, 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 deathcalamity, 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) |
faminenoun hunger, want, starvation, deprivation, scarcity, dearth, destitution refugees trapped by war, drought and famineQuotations
"They that die by famine die by inches" [Matthew Henry Expositions on the Old and New Testament]Translationsfamine (ˈfӕmin) noun (a) great lack or shortage especially of food. Some parts of the world suffer regularly from famine. 飢荒 饥荒IdiomsSeefeast or faminefamine
famine widespread food shortages leading to starvation and a high death rate within a given population. During a famine people die not only of hunger but from a variety of diseases to which they become increasingly vulnerable. Sen (1981) has argued that starvation arises from the condition of people not having enough to eat, and not as a result of there not being enough food to eat. Famine generally occurs when there is a sudden collapse of the level of food consumption, rather than as the result of a longterm decline, and people die because of the lack of time available to counteract the factors that lead to low consumption. It rarely occurs that a population is without any food (the Netherlands under German occupation during World War II may be one example), rather, Sen argues that it is changes in people's entitlement to food which is altered. Thus famine is linked to the distribution as well as the production of food, and the vulnerability of some groups, rather than others, within a population. Historically, famine has been precipitated by events such as serious floods or pestilence, but in the 20th-century major famines have been closely associated with warfare, as with Ethiopia and Mozambique in the 1970s and 80s, or with profound political upheavals, as with the consolidation of Stalinism in the 1930s in the USSR, and Maoism in China in the late 1950s. In all of these cases, however, only some social groups lost their entitlement to food, whilst others retained theirs or acquired new ones.famine
famine (făm′ĭn)n.1. A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.2. Severe hunger; starvation.A catastrophic food shortage due to lack of food or difficulties in food distribution, affecting large numbers of people due to climatic, environmental, socio-economic reasons or extreme political conditions such as tyrannical government or warfarefaminePronounced scarcity of food in a broad geographical area, causing widespread starvation, disease, and/or death in a population. famine
Synonyms for faminenoun hungerSynonyms- hunger
- want
- starvation
- deprivation
- scarcity
- dearth
- destitution
Synonyms for faminenoun an acute insufficiencySynonymsRelated Wordsnoun a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and deathRelated Words- calamity
- catastrophe
- tragedy
- disaster
- cataclysm
- the Great Calamity
- the Great Hunger
- the Great Starvation
- the Irish Famine
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