famine

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. an acute insufficiency
• Syn:
dearth, shortage
• Hypernyms:
lack, deficiency, want
2. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
• Hypernyms:
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
• Hyponyms:
the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dearth, shortage