Definition of famine Famine
/fæˈmʌn/ - [fatmun] - fam•ine
We found 13 definitions of famine from 8 different sources.
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What does famine mean?
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NounPlural: famines |
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| famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | ||
| calamity, cataclysm, tragedy, catastrophe, disaster an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" | ||
| famine - an acute insufficiency | ||
| dearth, shortage | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- famine (n.)
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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famine
A severe shortage of food, as through crop failure or over population. It may be due to poor harvests following drought, floods, earthquake, war, social conflict, etc.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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famine
fam′in, n. general scarcity of food: extreme scarcity of anything, as in 'famine prices,' &c.: hunger: starvation. [Fr., through an unrecorded Low L. famina, from L. fames, hunger.]
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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famine
After a famine in the stall, Comes a famine in the hall. -
famine
Under water famine, under snow bread. -
famine
A famine in England begins at the horse-manger.
Wikipedia 
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Famine is a situation where there is not enough food for people to eat. Without food, the human body grows weaker and weaker until the person becomes very sick or dies. In poor countries, such as in parts of Africa, famine can be common.
Great Irish Famine.
The great Irish famine was a great famine that lasted from 1846 to 1849 in Ireland. It was caused by "Phytophthora infestans", a kind of water mould. it killed potatoes, one of the main crops of Ireland at the time.
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🔤- famine, noun, singular of famines.
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