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Word: Famine
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: from Old French, from faim ‘hunger’, from Latin fames
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈfamɪn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
extreme scarcity of food
Short Definition:extreme scarcity of food
Examples:- drought resulted in famine throughout the region
- the famine of 1921–2
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