Famines - English meaning

Famines – definitions in English dictionary

noun
Extreme scarcity of food.
Usage examples:
Drought resulted in famine throughout the region
Synonims:
Scarcity of food Food shortages Deprivation Want

noun
An extreme lack of food in a region, causing suffering and death
Usage examples:
[ u ] widespread famine was reported in the region.

Famines translation into English

Famines: translate from English into Chinese

饥荒

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Hongersnood

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Famines

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Hungersnöte

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अकाल

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Carestie

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기근

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Голод

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Hambrunas

Word origin

late Middle English: from Old French, from faim ‘hunger’, from Latin fames .

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Famines – similar words

famine

noun
Extreme scarcity of food.
Usage examples:
Drought resulted in famine throughout the region

noun
An extreme lack of food in a region, causing suffering and death
Usage examples:
[ u ] widespread famine was reported in the region.

Famine - all meanings in English

Famines synonims

deprivation

noun
The damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society.
Usage examples:
Low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation

noun
An absence or too little of something important
Usage examples:
[ c ] there were food shortages and other deprivations during the war.

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want

verb
Have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.
Usage examples:
I want an apple

noun
A lack or deficiency of something.
Usage examples:
Victorian houses which are in want of repair

The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

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