(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.

(euphemistic or humorous) Overweight, fat.

(dated) typhus fever

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

plural of famine food

plural of nuclear famine

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