FAMINE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
   Hypernyms(s) famine is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • calamity (what does calamity mean?)
   • catastrophe (what does catastrophe mean?)
   • disaster (what does disaster mean?)
   • tragedy (what does tragedy mean?)
   • cataclysm (what does cataclysm mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • the Irish Famine (what does the Irish Famine mean?)
   • the Great Hunger (what does the Great Hunger mean?)
   • the Great Starvation (what does the Great Starvation mean?)
   • the Great Calamity (what does the Great Calamity mean?)
2. Meaning
   • an acute insufficiency
   Synonym(s)
   • dearth (what does dearth mean?)
   • shortage (what does shortage mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) famine is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • lack (what does lack mean?)
   • deficiency (what does deficiency mean?)
   • want (what does want mean?)