English Dictionary

dearth

IPA（発音記号）

/dɜːθ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 広義 廃用

A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. / (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply. / (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

日本語の意味

飢饉；食料が不足して高騰する状態 / 希少性；不足や供給の短缺 / （旧義）珍しさ；希少であることに伴う高価さ

During the dearth, villagers traded preserves for seeds to survive the winter.

食糧不足の間、村人たちは冬を乗り切るために保存食と種を交換した。

意味（1）

A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

意味（2）

(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.

I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

Whatsoever doth remaine for money, let Money-mongers, supply when they will. And I referre to Politicians to dispute among themselves whether the dearth of all things which most complaine of doeth proceede from plenty of gold and silver since the late discoveries, or from Monopolies, and combinations of Merchants and Craftsmen, or from Transportation of graine, or from pleasure of great personages, which doe most highly rate such things as they most like, or excesse in private persons, or to all these conjointly.

dearths （ plural ）