Usually means: Extreme scarcity of essential food.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word famine:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. famine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. famine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. famine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. famine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. famine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Famine, famine: Wordnik
  7. famine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Famine, famine: Wiktionary
  9. famine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. famine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. famine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Famine, famine: Dictionary.com
  13. famine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. famine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Famine (Masterton novel), Famine (O'Flaherty novel), Famine (comics), Famine (disambiguation), Famine (film), Famine, The Famine (film), The Famine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Famine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. famine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. famine: Rhymezone
  19. famine, famine (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. famine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. famine: Free Dictionary
  22. famine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. famine: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. famine: Legal dictionary

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  1. famine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Famine: Africa Glossary
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. famine: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Famine: Easton Bible
  2. Famine: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Famine: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See famines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Extreme shortage of food in a region.
noun:  (countable) A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
noun:  (dated) Starvation or malnutrition.
noun:  Severe shortage or lack of something.
noun:  (mythology) The personification of famine, often depicted riding a black horse.

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