Hunger

Definitions: Hunger

Hunger

Noun

1. A physiological need for food.

2. Strong desire for something (not food or drink): "a thirst for knowledge"; "hunger for affection".

Verb

1. Feel the need to eat.

2. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

3. Be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!".

Date "hunger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	Ability to eat in a Night Lunch Cart. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you are hungry, is an unfortunate omen. You will not find comfort and satisfaction in your home, and to lovers it means an unhappy marriage. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Health	The desire for food generated by a sensation arising from the lack of food in the stomach. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hunger is applied literally to the need or craving for food; it can also be applied metaphorically to cravings of other sorts.

The term is commonly used more broadly to refer to cases of widespread malnourishment or deprivation among populations, usually due to poverty or adverse agricultural conditions; see famine.

The term hungry also simply means ready for a meal.

Fasting is the practice of voluntarily not eating for a short period of time.

Synonyms: Hunger

Synonyms: hungriness (n), crave (v), famish (v), lust (v), starve (v), thirst (v). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: hungered (medicine), hungering.

Antonym: be full (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.
	Be hungry; Adjective: have a good appetite, play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.
	Appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence.
	Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.
Fasting	Verb: fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hunger

English words defined with "hunger": Affamish, Ahungered, Apositic ♦ Belly-pinched, bony, bulimia ♦ cadaverous ♦ Earth hunger, emaciated, Endurant, Entoperipheral, Esurine ♦ famishment ♦ gaunt, Goneness ♦ haggard, Hippocratic face, hunger march, hunger marcher, hunger strike, Hunger-bitten, Hungered, Hungering, Hunger-starve, hungry ♦ insatiable, insatiate ♦ Limosis ♦ pinched, power hunger, product ♦ Raphany, Refect ♦ skeletal, starvation ♦ To cry cupboard ♦ unsatiable ♦ wasted. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hunger": Auri ♦ Clearness, craniopharyngioma ♦ eighty-column mind ♦ Hare-brained, Hunger / Food insecurity, hunger pain, Hunger Prevention Act of 1988, Hunger seasons Food, Hungr ♦ INAUSPICIOUSLY ♦ Kussmaul Breathing ♦ Male suada Fames, man, More one has, the More he Desires ♦ NECK ♦ P.L. 480 ♦ regalia, Roland ♦ Shoreditch, Sibutramine, Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program, Spartan Dog, Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, Sullt ♦ TANTALUS. (references)

Etymologies containing "hunger": Hunger-starve, hungrily. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Hunger" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (appetite, famine, hunger, starvation, yearning), Swedish (famine, hunger).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I woke the next evening with a hunger I had never felt. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair--we throw gobs of money at them and problems only get worse. (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.) Dancing away my hunger pain moving my feet so my stomach won't hurt I'm kinda like Jesus, but not in a sacrilegious way (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'm tightening my belt one loop so that I don't feel hunger pains, and I suggest your mother and sister do likewise. (Troll 2; writing credit: Claudio Fragasso) Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? (Hannibal; writing credit: David Mamet)
Lyrics	Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) Cause there's a hunger, longing to escape (Higher; performing artist: Creed) And his hunger burns (In the Ghetto; performing artist: Elvis Presley) If you got a hunger for what you see (Welcome To The Jungle; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)
Movie/TV Titles	Hunger (1974) A Hunger Stroke (1928) The Great Hunger Duel (1922) Driven by Hunger (1915) Shall Never Hunger (1912)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Black Boy: (American Hunger) (Perennial Classics) (reference) Twilight Hunger (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Center On Hunger Poverty And Nutritional Policy Publications (reference) Status Report On Hunger And Homelessness In Americas Cities (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Hunger - Bump in the Night (reference) The Hunger - Smoke Mirrors & Paranoia (reference) Hunger - Vampires (reference) The Hunger (reference) The Hunger (Widescreen Edition) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Hunger (reference) The Hunger (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Hunger : World Food Day / Painting by Myung S. Lee. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Coxey's army, 1894 : hunger marchers, 1931. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Great Hunger, Salinas Lettuce Strike, 1936. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hunger - For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium Will you eat less wheat, meat, fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads? / / Raleigh. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Hunger knows no armistice--Near East Relief / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; Alco-Gravure Inc., New York-Baltimore. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hunger - For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium Will you eat less wheat, meat, fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads? / / Raleigh. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Hunger knows no armistice--Near East Relief / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; Alco-Gravure Inc., New York-Baltimore. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hunger als Strafe : politische Gefangene in der UdSSR. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Fast for a world harvest, Nov. 20 : join the battle against world hunger : go without food for 1 day. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hunger hurts : help!. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Claudian	Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld	The hunger for applause is the source of all conscious literature and heroism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg	If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Heraclitus	God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Jesse Bennett	The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
Nadine Gordimer	Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Sholom Aleichem	The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Thomas Jefferson	Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
William Shakespeare	Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	Now, at this sad and breathless moment, we are plunged in the hunger and distress which are the aftermath of our stupendous struggle; but this will pass and may pass quickly, and there is no reason except human folly or sub-human crime which should deny to all the nations the inauguration and enjoyment of an age of plenty. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He was suffering both from cold and hunger.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	For hunger and fat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Eat before you get hungry, because hunger can make feelings of nausea stronger. (references)
		Symptoms include increased thirst and urination, constant hunger, weight loss, blurred vision, and extreme fatigue. (references)
		A pituitary tumor that limits the secretion of growth hormone (GH) can stunt the growth of children and cause low blood sugar, which can induce fainting, dizziness, anxiety, and intense hunger. (references)
Business		Liu had started a hunger strike to protest beatings by prison guards who wanted him to renounce his antigovernment views. (references)
		Industry experts forecast continued growth in this market as public-sector entities begin a long-overdue computerization program through $500 million in EU funds, and private companies continue to feed their hunger for cutting edge information technology solutions. (references)
Children	Switzerland	In August 2000, a 4-year-old girl died in the Canton of Zurich as a result of violence and hunger inflicted by her adoptive mother. (references)
	Korea	In 1997 a senior UNICEF official said that approximately 80,000 children in North Korea were in immediate danger of dying from hunger and disease; 800,000 more were suffering from malnutrition to a serious but lesser degree. (references)
Civil Liberties	Tunisia	In June RAID member Sadri Khiari began a hunger strike lasting most of June to protest his government-imposed travel ban. (references)
Economic History	Cambodia	Many starved before the first harvest, and hunger and malnutrition--bordering on starvation--were constant during those years. (references)
Human Rights	Turkey	By year's end, 48 hunger strikers had died. (references)
	Cameroon	The prisoners threatened to go on hunger strikes or riot. (references)
Indigenous People	Honduras	In 1997 after a month of nationwide protests by indigenous organizations that included a hunger strike, the Government signed a 22-point agreement with representatives of various groups that made available 9 initial land grants of about 22,000 acres each to different tribes, granted some contested land titles outright to indigenous petitioners, and set aside government funds for indigenous housing. (references)
Political Economy	Portugal	Lengthy delays in holding trials led to hunger strikes by some pretrial detainees. (references)
	Korea	Since 1995, nearly annual droughts and floods have destroyed crops and ruined agricultural land, and hunger and malnutrition have been widespread. (references)
Worker Rights	Guatemala	The workers began a hunger strike on the doorstep of the Presidential Offices in late November, which continued at year's end. (references)
	China	Li was charged with "incitement to subversion of state power," an apparent reference to his attempt to publicize prison conditions through a hunger strike. (references)
	Egypt	In one instance, employees of a private plastics firm shut down the plant and went on a hunger strike for several days because salaries were 9 months in arrears. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Our allies are the millions who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	The product of our abundance must be used more effectively to relieve hunger and help economic growth in all corners of the globe.
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	I have seen the hunger of a homeless child, the pain of a man wounded in battle, the grief of a mother who has lost her son.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	But the problems of hunger cannot be solved by short-term measures.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	People everywhere hunger for peace and a better life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Hunger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.64% of the time. "Hunger" is used about 1,120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.64%	1,116	6,811
Noun (proper)	0.36%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	1,120	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "hunger" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Hunger	Last name	1,000	18,170
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "hunger": a full stomach does not know what hunger is ♦ appease one's hunger ♦ be dead with hunger ♦ be pinched with hunger ♦ die of hunger ♦ Earth hunger ♦ faint from hunger ♦ feel faint with hunger ♦ feel the pangs of hunger ♦ fell the pinch of hunger ♦ gnawing hunger ♦ go on a hunger strike ♦ gratify hunger ♦ hunger after ♦ hunger after smth. ♦ hunger for ♦ hunger for adventure ♦ hunger for smth. ♦ hunger march ♦ hunger marcher ♦ hunger pain ♦ hunger strike ♦ hunger swelling ♦ pangs of hunger ♦ perish with hunger ♦ perished with hunger ♦ pinched with hunger ♦ power hunger ♦ ravenous hunger. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "hunger": Hunger-bit, Hunger-bitten, hunger-cowed, hunger-distended, hunger-driven, hunger-pinched, Hunger-starve, hunger-strike, hunger-striker, hunger-strikes, hunger-striking, hunger-though, hunger-torn, hunger-written.
	Ending with "hunger": land-hunger.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "hunger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vdes urie, vdes nga dëshira për, uri (dearth, famine), kam uri (be hungry), etje (anxiety, avidity, cupidity, desire, drought, eagerness, hankering, thirst, voracity), dëshirë (aim, appetite, craving, desire, liking, looking for, love, notion, penchant, pleasure, prayer, want, wish). (various references)

Arabic		‏توق (desire, eagerness, longing, yearning), ‏تاق (ache, aim, aspire, crave, desire, gasp, hanker, hone, pant, want, wish, yearn), ‏جوع (emptiness, inanition, starvation), ‏جاع (starve), ‏إشتهى (desire, feel like, lust, wish), ‏إشتهاء (longing), ‏شعر بالجوع. (various references)

Basque		gose. (various references)

Bulgarian		копнея (ache, crave, hanker, languish, long, pant, pine, sigh, weary, yearn, yen), копнеж (ache, hankering, urge, yearning, yen), гладувам (famish, starve), глад (famine, scarcity, starvation), оставям да гладува, жажда (concupiscence, eagerness, thirst, yearning, yen), жадувам (ache, desire, hanker, pant, pine, thirst, weary, yearn, yen), изгладнявам (famish). (various references)

Chinese		饥饿 (Hungered, Hungering, hungry, starvation, starved), 飢�" (hungry, starve), 簻 (big). (various references)

Czech		hlad (starvation), touha (ambition, aspiration, craving, desire, longing, thirst, urge, wish, yearning, yen), prahnutí. (various references)

Danish		sult (starvation). (various references)

Dutch		honger. (various references)

Esperanto		malsato. (various references)

Faeroese		hungur, svongd. (various references)

Farsi		قحطی (Starvation), گرسنه کردن , گرسنه شدن , گرسنگی دادن (Starve), گرسنگی (Starvation), اشتیاق داشتن (Aspire, Crave, Hanker, Thirst, Yearn), اشتیاق (Anxiety, Appetite, Avidity, Enthusiasm, Heat, Solicitude, Thirst). (various references)

Finnish		nälkä. (various references)

French		faim. (various references)

German		hunger (appetite, famine, starvation, yearning), hungern (famish, go hungry, go without food, starvation, starve, to famish, to go hungry, to hunger). (various references)

Greek		πείνα (famine, hungriness, starvation). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"שתוקק (crave, desire, hanker, long for, lust, strive, want, wish for, yearn), לרעוב (starve), כפן (famine), רעבת� ות (avidity, gluttony, greed, voracity), רעב (famine, famished, gluttonous, greedy, hungry, ravenous, scarcity, starvation, yearning). (various references)

Hungarian		éhség (esurience, esuriency, famine). (various references)

Icelandic		hungur, sultur. (various references)

Indonesian		kelaparan (famine). (various references)

Irish		ocras. (various references)

Italian		fame (famine, starvation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		饑�" (starvation), 飢�" , 飢え (starvation), 空腹 , 空き腹 (empty stomach), 空きっ腹 (empty stomach), ハロゲン電球 (furlong, handkerchief, handsome, hang, hang glider, hang ten, hangar, hanger, hanger display, hanger plant, hanging plant, hangul, Harrop, Hawaii, Hawaiian guitar, Hungary, hunger strike, hunger-strike, hungry, hungry market, hung-up, tungsten halogen lamp). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すきばら (empty stomach), すきっばら (empty stomach), すきっぱら (empty stomach), すきはら (empty stomach), ハンガー (hangar, hanger), きが (daily life, starvation), くうふく, うえ (above, after, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, emperor, far better, higher, influence of, lord, my dear, on top of, over, shogun, sovereign, starvation, summit, superior, surface, up, upon, upper part). (various references)

Korean		굶주림 (Hungering, starving). (various references)

Manx		accrys (hungering). (various references)

Norwegian		sult. (various references)

Occitan		talent. (various references)

Papiamen		hamber, flakesa. (various references)

Pig Latin		ungerhay

Portuguese		fome (famine, hunger strike, starvation). (various references)

Romanian		foame (famine, starvation). (various references)

Russian		голод (famine, starvation). (various references)

Scottish		acras. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		gladovati, glad (famine), žudnja (avidity, craving, eagerness, hanker, hankering, longing, lust, thirst, yen), žudeti (ache, aspire, covet, crave, hanker, long for, lust, thirst, yearn). (various references)

Spanish		hambre (fame, famine, hearsay, renown, repute, rumor, rumour, starvation). (various references)

Sranan		angribere, angri. (various references)

Swahili		njaa. (various references)

Swedish		hunger (famine), hungra (be hungry, starve). (various references)

Thai		หิว (hungry, klempt), ความหิว. (various references)

Turkish		hasret çekmek, istek (adjuration, alacrity, appetite, aspiration, avidity, bent, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, instance, intentness, mind, pleasure, propensity, readiness, relish, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, urge, want, will, wish, zeal), arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen), açlik, açlık (dearth, famine, hollowness, starvation), aç bırakmak (famish, starve), özlemek (ache, hanker, long, long for, pant, pine, pine for, sigh for, yearn), özlem (aspiration, craving, hankering, longing, missing, nostalgia, yearning, yen). (various references)

Turkmen		ajykmak (be hungry). (various references)

Ukranian		голодувати (famish, fast, starve), голод (famine, starvation), морити голодом, жадати (ache for, covet, crave, crave for, pine, thirst, whim, will, wish for), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, libido, need, nisus, objective), потреба (demand, necessity, need, requirement, want). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự khao khát (avidity, hankering, thirst), sự ước mong tha thiết, sự đói (starvation). (various references)

Welsh		newyn (famine), cythlwng (fast, fasting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	�a-ka-tab. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	esuriem, esuriens, esurient, esuriente, esurientem, esurientes, esurienti, esurientibus, esurientis, esurierit, esuriero, esurierunt, esuriet, esurietis, esuriit, esurimus, esurire, esuriret, esuriretis, esurisset, esurit, esuritio, esuritis, esuriunt, esurivi, fame, famem, fames, fami, famis, ieiunia, ieiunii, ieiuniis, ieiunio, ieiunitas, ieiunium. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	hungor. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	famine. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Deilia katecei androgunaion yuch de aergou peinasei
Latin	405	Vulgate	Pigredo inmittit soporem et anima dissoluta esuriet
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Slouthe sendeth in slep; and a dissolut soule shal hungre.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 15
Cebuano	¶ Ang katapol makapahinanok sa halalum nga pagkatulog; Ug ang tapolan nga kalag magaantus sa kagutom.
Croatian	Lijenost navlaèi èovjeku dubok san i nemarna duša gladuje.
Danish	Dovenskab sænker i Dvale, den lade Sjæl må sulte.
Dutch	Luiheid doet in diepen slaap vallen; en een bedriegelijke ziel zal hongeren.
Finnish	Laiskuus vaivuttaa sikeään uneen, ja veltto joutuu näkemään nälkää.
French	La paresse fait tomber dans l`assoupissement, Et l`âme nonchalante éprouve la faim.
German	Faulheit bringt Schlafen, und eine lässige Seele wird Hunger leiden.
Haitian Creole	¶ Parès fè je ou toujou lou. Moun ki rete san fè anyen ap rete grangou.
Hungarian	A restség álomba merít, és a lomha lélek megéhezik.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Bermalas-malas membuat orang tertidur lelap, dan akhirnya si pemalas akan kelaparan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bahwa malas itu mendatangkan tidur lelap, dan seorang yang lalai merasai lapar kelak.
Italian	La pigrizia fa cadere in torpore, l'indolente patir� la fame.
Maori	¶ Ma te mangere e mea kia moe i te moe reka; ka matekai hoki te wairua o te rora.
Norwegian	Dovenskap senker i dyp søvn, og den late skal hungre.
Portuguese	A preguiça faz cair em profundo sono; e o ocioso padecerá fome.
Rumanian	Lenea te cufundq kntr`un somn adknc, wi sufletul molatic sufere de foame. -
Russian	мЕОПУФШ � ПЗТХЦБЕФ Ч УПОМЙЧПУФШ, Й ОЕТБ�"ЙЧБС �"ХЫБ �'Х�"ЕФ ФЕТ� ЕФШ ЗПМП�".
Spanish	La pereza hace caer en sueño profundo, y la persona negligente padecerá de hambre.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hunger": hungered, hungering, hungers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hunger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hegner, hengwrt, heuger, hieger, hinger, Hongen, Hongera, Hongre, Hongwen, Horngren, Hufnagel, hugern, Hugnet, hunder, hunegr, hungar, hunged, hungeer, hungery, Hungo, hungr, hungrey, hunner, Pungor, Shungsep, unger, ungir. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hunger" (pronounced hu"ngger)
4	-u" ng g er	monger, younger.
3	-ng g er	anger, finger, fishmonger, forefinger, gangbanger, linger, longer, warmonger.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: rehung.
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: huger.
	-2 letters: genu, grue, hern, huge, hung, rune, rung, urge.
	-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, gnu, gun, hen, her, hue, hug, hun, reg, rue, rug, run, ugh, urn.
	-4 letters: eh, en, er, he, ne, nu, re, uh, un.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: hungers, roughen.
	+2 letters: euchring, harangue, hungered, hungover, hungrier, overhung, roughens, uncharge, ushering.
	+3 letters: greyhound, harangued, haranguer, harangues, humdinger, hungering, hungriest, hunkering, naughtier, neighbour, rehousing, roughened, roughhewn, roughneck, roughness, uncharged, uncharges, wuthering.
	+4 letters: burthening, bushranger, butchering, chequering, chirurgeon, chuntering, flugelhorn, furthering, greenhouse, greyhounds, gunfighter, haranguers, humdingers, hungriness, languisher, murthering, neighbours, outhearing, retouching, roughening, roughnecks, shotgunner, shuddering, shuttering, thundering, unearthing, unsphering, untogether, upreaching, vouchering.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 75 6E 67 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
aqua force hunger teen	541	hunger switch	16
hunger	394	hunger pains	16
the hunger site	375	hunger metallica	15
world hunger	245	aqua download force hunger teen	15
they hunger	38	aqua dvd force hunger teen	15
stop hunger	32	aqua force hunger quote teen	15
hunger relief	27	hunger picture world	15
aqua force hunger picture teen	25	aqua force hunger lyrics teen	14
a hunger artist	23	aqua force hunger team	14
hunger strike	22	awareness day hunger national	14
aqua episode force hunger teen	21	hunger in america	14
world hunger statistics	21	child hunger	14
aqua episode force guide hunger teen	19	hunger picture	14
hunger in africa	19	aqua downloads episode force hunger teen	12
aqua downloads force hunger teen	19	aqua hunger teen	12
aqua download episode force hunger teen	19	hunger point	12
aquateen force hunger	18	information on world hunger	12
aqua force hunger teen wallpaper	17	aqua force hunger pic teen	11
hunger of memory	17	world hunger solution	11
hunger movie	17	hunger and poverty	11
		hunger project	11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hunger

Definitions: Hunger

Hunger

Noun

Verb

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Specialty Definition: Hunger

Synonyms: Hunger

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Desire

Fasting

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Claudian

Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Heraclitus

Jesse Bennett

Nadine Gordimer

Sholom Aleichem

Thomas Jefferson

William Shakespeare

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Winston S. Churchill

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

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