hunger
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: hun‧ger
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”).
Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).
Noun
[edit]hunger (countable and uncountable, plural hungers)
- A need or compelling desire for food.
- (by extension) Any strong desire.
- I have a hunger to win.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:
- O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
- 2003, “What Up Gangsta”, in Curtis Jackson, Rob Tewlow (lyrics), Reef Tewlow (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:
- When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?
Usage notes
[edit]The phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- air hunger
- anti-hunger
- enhunger
- father hunger
- from hunger
- hunger is a good sauce
- hunger is the best pickle
- hunger is the best sauce
- hunger is the best seasoning
- hunger is the best spice
- hunger knock
- hungerless
- hunger moon
- hunger pain
- hunger-pain
- hunger pang
- hunger sauce
- hungersome
- hunger stone
- hunger strike
- hungry
- ravenous hunger
- shell hunger
- skin hunger
Translations
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.
Verb
[edit]hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered)
- (intransitive) To be in need of food.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:20:
- Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.
- (figuratively, intransitive, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
- I hungered for your love.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:6:
- Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.
- 1993, The The, Love Is Stronger Than Death:
- In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
- (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- “hunger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hunger
- (uncommon) hunger
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hunger | hungeren |
genitive | hungers | hungerens |
Synonyms
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[edit]German
[edit]Verb
[edit]hunger
- inflection of hungern:
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (Early ME) hunngerr, hungor, hungær
- hunguer, honguer, honger, hungre, hongre, hungere, hongur, hounger, hounguer, hungir, hungyr, hungur
Etymology
[edit]From Old English hungor, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hunger (uncountable)
- Hungriness; the feeling of being hungry or requiring satiation.
- Hunger; a great lack or death of food or nutrition.
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- Mani þusen hi drapen mid hungær.
- Many thousands they overcame with hunger.
- A shortage of food in a region or country; widespread hunger.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]
- If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]
- Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
- (rare) Any strong drive or compulsion.
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “hunger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.
North Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- honger (Föhr-Amrum)
- Hunger (Sylt)
Etymology
[edit]from Old Frisian hunger, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Noun
[edit]hunger m
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
Noun
[edit]hunger m (definite singular hungeren, uncountable)
Synonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “hunger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hunger m (definite singular hungeren) (uncountable)
Synonyms
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[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hunger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]hunger c (uncountable)
- hunger
- att känna hunger
- to feel hunger
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | hunger | hungers |
definite | hungern | hungerns | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Derived terms
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[edit]See also
[edit]- törst (“thirst”)
References
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- enm:Nutrition
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