(uncountable) Extreme shortage of food in a region. / (countable) A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. / (dated) Starvation or malnutrition. / Severe shortage or lack of something.

plural of famine

(mythology) The personification of famine, often depicted riding a black horse.

(idiomatic) A situation in which something is always either extremely abundant or in extremely short supply.

plural of nuclear famine

Famine resulting from the harmful effects of nuclear war on agriculture.

(dated) typhus fever

plural of famine food

(nutrition) Any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of extreme poverty or starvation.

(euphemistic or humorous) Overweight, fat.