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famines
Overview of noun famine
The noun famine has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. dearth, famine, shortage -- (an acute insufficiency)
2. famine -- (a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun famine
2 senses of famine
Sense 1
dearth, famine, shortage
=> lack, deficiency, want
=> need, demand
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
famine
=> calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
=> misfortune, bad luck
=> trouble
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun famine
1 of 2 senses of famine
Sense 2
famine
=> the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun famine
2 senses of famine
Sense 1
dearth, famine, shortage
=> lack, deficiency, want
Sense 2
famine
=> calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
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Domain of noun famine
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Familiarity of noun famine
famine used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun famine
2 senses of famine
Sense 1
dearth, famine, shortage
> lack, deficiency, want
=> absence
=> dearth, famine, shortage
=> deficit
=> mineral deficiency
=> shortness
=> stringency, tightness
Sense 2
famine
> calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
=> act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
=> apocalypse
=> famine
=> kiss of death
=> meltdown
=> plague
=> visitation
=> tidal wave
=> tsunami
Meronyms of noun famine
2 senses of famine
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Grep of noun famine
famine
the irish famine
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