hunger
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: hun‧ger
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
edithunger (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
editThe phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.
Antonyms
editDerived 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
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See also
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.
Verb
edithunger (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
editTranslations
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References
edit- “hunger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editDanish
editEtymology
editNoun
edithunger
- (uncommon) hunger
Declension
editcommon gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hunger | hungeren |
genitive | hungers | hungerens |
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editGerman
editVerb
edithunger
- inflection of hungern:
Middle English
editAlternative forms
edit- (Early ME) hunngerr, hungor, hungær
- hunguer, honguer, honger, hungre, hongre, hungere, hongur, hounger, hounguer, hungir, hungyr, hungur
Etymology
editFrom Old English hungor, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithunger (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
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “hunger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.
North Frisian
editAlternative forms
edit- honger (Föhr-Amrum)
- Hunger (Sylt)
Etymology
editfrom Old Frisian hunger, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Noun
edithunger m
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
Noun
edithunger m (definite singular hungeren, uncountable)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- “hunger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
edithunger m (definite singular hungeren) (uncountable)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- “hunger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
edithunger c (uncountable)
- hunger
- att känna hunger
- to feel hunger
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | hunger | hungers |
definite | hungern | hungerns | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editSee also
edit- törst (“thirst”)
References
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