famine
Meaning
- Extreme shortage of food in a region.
- A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
- Starvation or malnutrition.
- Severe shortage or lack of something.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fam‧ine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfæmɪn/
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames. Cognate with Spanish hambruna (“famine”).
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