English Dictionary

famine

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfæmɪn/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 古風

(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.

日本語の意味

極度の食料不足、飢饉。 / 極度の食料不足が長期間続く状態。 / 飢えや栄養失調（時代的表現）。 / 何かが極めて不足している状態。

The international relief organization sent food and medical supplies to the region to help people survive the famine.

国際救援団体は、その地域の人々が深刻な食糧不足を乗り越えられるように、食料と医療物資を送った。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Extreme shortage of food in a region.

It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.

意味（2）

(countable) A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.

The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....

意味（3）

(dated) Starvation or malnutrition.

His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated.

意味（4）

Severe shortage or lack of something.

the Lancashire Cotton Famine

famines （ plural ）