A famine is a severe shortage of food, but not the "I forgot to go to the grocery store and there's nothing to eat in the house" type of shortage. A famine is usually caused by crop failure or disaster.
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Noun
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Noun
an acute insufficiency
n.
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution.
Famine
There was a famine in the land.
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Usage Examples
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
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Other Usage ExamplesLet's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
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