hunger
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Compare Dutch honger, German and Low German Hunger, Swedish hunger.
Noun [edit]
hunger (plural hungers)
Usage notes [edit]
The phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.
Antonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
need for food
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strong desire
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old English hyngran.
Verb [edit]
hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered)
- To be in need of food.
- (figuratively) To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
- I hungered for your love.
- Bible, Matthew v. 6
- Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.
- (archaic) To make hungry; to famish.
Translations [edit]
need food
desire
References [edit]
- hunger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams [edit]
German [edit]
Verb [edit]
hunger
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
Noun [edit]
hunger m (definite singular hungeren; uncountable)
- hunger (desire)
Swedish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
hunger c (uncountable)
Declension [edit]
Declension of hunger
See also [edit]
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- German verb first-person forms
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