English-Thai Dictionary

famine

N ภาวะ ข้าวยากหมากแพง  ความขาดแคลน อาหาร  ความอดอยาก  scarcity starvation pa-wa-kao-yak-mak-paeng

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FAMINE

n.[L. fames.] 1. Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.
There was a famine in the land. Genesis 26:1.
2. Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FAMINE

Fam "ine, n. Etym: [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr. hani loss, lack, ha to leave. ]

 

Defn: General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. "Worn with famine. " Milton. There was a famine in the land. Gen. xxvi. 1. Famine fever (Med. ), typhus fever.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

famine

fam ine |ˈfamən ˈfæmən | ▶noun extreme scarcity of food: drought could result in famine throughout the region | the famine of 1921 –22. • a shortage: the cotton famine of the 1860s. • archaic hunger. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from faim ‘hunger, ’ from Latin fames.

 

Oxford Dictionary

famine

famine |ˈfamɪn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] extreme scarcity of food: drought resulted in famine throughout the region | [ count noun ] : the famine of 1921 –2. • [ count noun ] a shortage: the cotton famine of the 1860s. • archaic hunger. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from faim ‘hunger ’, from Latin fames.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

famine

famine noun a nation threatened by famine: food shortages, scarcity of food; starvation, malnutrition. ANTONYMS plenty.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

famine

famine noun 1 the nation is threatened by famine: scarcity of food, food shortages; deprivation, want. ANTONYMS plenty. 2 the cotton famine of the 1860s: shortage, scarcity, lack, dearth, want, deficiency, insufficiency, shortfall, undersupply, scantiness, rareness, paucity, poverty, drought, unavailability; rare exiguity, exiguousness.

 

French Dictionary

famine

famine n. f. nom féminin Manque d ’aliments, insuffisance de vivres dans une région pendant un certain temps. : La sécheresse a causé la famine dans ce pays. SYNONYME disette .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

famine

fam ine /fǽmɪn /〖原義は 3 〗名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C U (長期間に及ぶ )飢饉 （ききん ）; 極度の食糧不足 ▸ famine prices 飢饉相場 〘品不足による高値 〙▸ famine camps (飢饉による )難民キャンプ 2 U (物資の )不足, 欠乏, 払底 (!具体例ではa ～; その際しばしば修飾語を伴う ) ▸ a water famine 水不足 3 U ｟古 ｠飢え, 飢餓 .