1 [U] the state of not having enough food to eat, especially when this causes illness or death
SYNSTARVATION:
Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp. * The organization works to alleviate world hunger and disease.
2 [U] the feeling caused by a need to eat:
hunger pangs * I felt faint with hunger.
3 [sing.] ~ (for sth) (formal) a strong desire for sth:
a hunger for knowledge / information / success * Nothing seemed to satisfy their hunger for truth.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
hunger for / after sth/sb (literary) to have a strong desire or need for sth/sb:
He hungered for knowledge.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hunger is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hunger a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hunger is tagged as noun.
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