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Definitions: Dearth |
DearthNoun1. A severe shortage (especially a shortage of food). 2. An insufficient quantity or number. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dearth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Dearth \Dearth\, noun. [from Old English expression derthe, from dere. See Dear.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Bible | Dearth a scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land" (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1). In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DearthSynonyms: famine (n), paucity (n), shortage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dullness | Noun: dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity ; stupidity; want of originality; dearth of ideas. |
Insufficiency | Scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dearth |
| English words defined with "dearth": Derth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dearth": Birds ♦ Death in the Pot ♦ Starving. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dearth": Derth. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The main one always was a dearth of capital available to finance lease transactions. (references) | |
China lacks the resources needed to research and develop high efficiency, high-tech, low toxicity pesticides due to a shortage of financial resources and a dearth of qualified researchers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Afghanistan | Historically, there has been a dearth of information and reliable statistics about Afghanistan's economy. (references) |
Switzerland | Despite a dearth of natural resources, the Swiss economy is among the world's most advanced and prosperous. (references) | |
Bahrain | A major weakness confronting the government's bid to attract visitors is the dearth of public beaches in Bahrain. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dearth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dearth" is used about 119 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) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dearth" 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 |
| Dearth | Last name | 1,000 | 12,073 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "dearth": dearth of ideas. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
david dearth | 15 |
dearth | 7 |
dearth motor | 3 |
the birth dearth | 3 |
bill dearth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dearth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zi (bereavement, black, famine, mourning, sables), uri (famine, hunger), mungesë (absence, absentness, deficiency, deficit, destitution, lack, Miss, non-attendance, poverty, scarcity, shortcoming, short-fall, want, Wantage). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجاعة (famine, starvation, wolf), قلة (few, jar, lack, morsel, paucity, rareness, scarceness, shortage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скъпотия (costliness), оскъдица (scarcity, sparsity), недоимък (insufficiency, lack, penury). (various references) | |
Chinese | 缺乏 (Deficiencies, Deficiency, lack, Lacked, lacking, scant, scarce, scarcity). (various references) | |
Czech | drahota (costliness, dearness). (various references) | |
Farsi | کمیابی وگرانی , کمبود (Deficiency, Deficit, Leakage, Shortage, Shortcoming), قحطوغلا. (various references) | |
French | disette, manque (default, deficiency, deficit). (various references) | |
German | mangel (absence, bad work, blemish, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, needs, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want, wringer). (various references) | |
Greek | έλλειψη (absence, default of, defect, deficiency, ellipse, ellipsis, failing, lack, scarcity, shortage, shortage of, shortcoming, starving, want), ανεπάρκεια τροφίμων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצער (deplorable, distressing, fewness, grievous, lamentable, littleness, paucity, regrettable, sad, saddening, smallness, sore, sorrowful), יוקר (costliness, dearness, expensiveness), בצורת (drought, scarcity), צמצום (brevity, condensation, contraction, limitation, penury, reduction, restriction, retrenchment, scantiness), "ירות (infrequency, rareness, rarity, scarceness, scarcity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ínség (distress, esurience, esuriency, famine, necessity, need, pauperization, penury, poverty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekurangan (absence, dearth of, default, deficiency, demerit, famine, lack, short of, shortage). (various references) | |
Italian | scarsit (lack, poorness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slenderness), carestia (famine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 払底 (famine, scarcity, shortage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふそく (accidental, additional clause, additional rules, by-laws, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, shortage, supplementary provisions, unexpected, unforeseen), ふってい (famine, scarcity, shortage). (various references) | |
Manx | gortey (destitution, famine, hurt, injure, injury, scarceness, smart, starvation), genney (destitution, paucity, scarceness, shortness, slenderness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earthday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escassez (famine, paucity, scarcity, shortage, stringency, want). (various references) | |
Romanian | sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, destitution, impecuniosity, indigence, meanness, misery, necessity, neediness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, sterility, stringency, want), raritate (curio, rare, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, singularity), lipsã (absence, blemish, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), foamete (famine, starvation). (various references) | |
Russian | нехватка (defect, deficit, failure, shortage, shortages, shortfall, wantage). (various references) | |
Scottish | daorsainn (bondage, slavery). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skupoća (costliness, expensiveness, fancy prices, high cost), oskudica (destitution, lack, necessity, need, penury, privation, scarceness, scarcity, want, wantage), nestašica (lack, paucity, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, want). (various references) | |
Spanish | carestía (dearness, famine, shortage). (various references) | |
Swedish | brist (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, desideratum, destitution, disadvantage, failing, failure, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, need, poverty, scarcity, scarity, shortage, shortcoming, short-fall, want, warp). (various references) | |
Turkish | yokluk (absence, absentness, exiguity, failure, famine, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), kıtlık (drought, exiguity, failure, famine, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slimness, sparseness, sparsity), eksiklik (defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), açlık (famine, hollowness, hunger, starvation). (various references) | |
Ukranian | недостача (absence, failure, lack, need, non-availability, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, want), брак (brack, defect, deficiency, discard [tech.], reject, spoilage, waster), дорожнеча (dearness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thiếu (default, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, scantiness, shortage, want), sự khan hiếm sự đói kém. (various references) | |
Welsh | drudaniaeth (paucity, scarcity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inopia, inopiae, inopiam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 7, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hlqen de limoV ef olhn thn ghn aiguptou kai canaan kai qliyiV megalh kai ouc euriskon cortasmata oi patereV hmwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Venit autem fames in universam Aegyptum et Chanaan et tribulatio magna et non inveniebant cibos patres nostri |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And hungur cam in to al Egipt, and Canaan, and greet tribulacioun; and oure fadris founden not mete. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then came ther a derth over all the londe of Egipt and Canaan and great affliccion that our fathers founde no sustenauce. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 7, Verse 11 |
| Albanian | Por ra një zi buke dhe u bë një shtrëngesë në gjithë vendin e Egjiptit dhe të Kanaanit, dhe etërit tanë nuk gjenin ushqime. |
| Bulgarian | И настана глад по цялата Египетска и Ханаанска земя и голямо бедствие; и бащите ни не намираха прехрана. |
| Cebuano | Ug unya miabut ang gutom ug ang dakung kagul-anan sa tibuok Egipto ug Canaan, ug ang atong mga ginikanan walay hingkaplagang mga makaon. |
| Chinese | 後 來 埃 及 ' 迦 南 全 地 遭 遇 饑 ' 、 大 受 艱 難 、 我 們 的 祖 宗 、 就 絕 了 糧 。 |
| Croatian | Onda u cijeloj zemlji egipatskoj i kanaanskoj nasta glad i nevolja velika: oci naši ne mogahu naæi hrane. |
| Danish | Men der kom Hungersnød over hele Ægypten og Kanån og en stor Trængsel, og vore Fædre fandt ikke Føde. |
| Dutch | En er kwam een hongersnood over het gehele land van Egypte en Kanaan, en grote benauwdheid; en onze vaders vonden geen spijs. |
| Finnish | Ja tuli nälänhätä koko Egyptiin ja Kanaaniin ja suuri vaiva, eivätkä meidän isämme saaneet mistään ravintoa. |
| French | Il survint une famine dans tout le pays d`Égypte, et dans celui de Canaan. La détresse était grande, et nos pères ne trouvaient pas de quoi se nourrir. |
| German | Es kam aber eine teure Zeit über das ganze Land Ägypten und Kanaan und große Trübsal, und unsere Väter fanden nicht Nahrung. |
| Haitian Creole | Apre sa, vin gen yon grangou nan tout peyi Lejip ak nan peyi Kanaran. Moun t'ap soufri anpil. Zansèt nou yo pa t' jwenn anyen pou yo te manje. |
| Hungarian | Következék pedig éhség Égyiptom és Kanaán egész földére, és nagy nyomorúság; és nem találnak vala eledelt a mi atyáink. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian terjadi suatu masa kelaparan yang besar di seluruh negeri Mesir dan Kanaan sehingga orang menderita sekali. Nenek moyang kita tidak bisa mendapat makanan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka datanglah bala kelaparan ke atas seluruh tanah Mesir dan Kanaan itu beserta dengan kesukaran yang besar, sehingga nenek moyang kita tiada lagi dapat makanan. |
| Italian | Venne una carestia su tutto l'Egitto e in Canaan e una grande miseria, e i nostri padri non trovavano da mangiare. |
| Korean | 그 때 에 굽 과 가 나 안 온 땅 에 흉 년 " 어 큰 환 난 이 있 을 새 우 리 조 상 " 이 양 식 이 없 " 지 라 |
| Latvian | Tad nâca bads un lielas cieðanas pâr visu Çìipti un Kanaanu, un mûsu tçvi neatrada vairs pârtiku. |
| Maori | Na i reira ka puta he matekai ki te whenua katoa o Ihipa, o Kanaana, a he mate nui: kihai rawa i kitea he oranga e o tatou matua. |
| Modern Greek | Ηλθε δε πεινα εφ' ολην την γην της Αιγυπτου και Χανααν και θλιψις μεγαλη, και δεν ευρισκον τροφας οι πατερες ημων. |
| Norwegian | Så kom det hungersnød over hele Egyptens land og Kana'an, og stor trengsel, og våre fedre fant ikke føde. |
| Portuguese | Sobreveio então uma fome a todo o Egito e Canaã, e grande tribulação; e nossos pais não achavam alimentos. |
| Rumanian | A venit o foamete kn tot Egiptul wi Canaanul. Nevoia era mare, wi pqrinyii nowtri nu gqseau merinde. |
| Russian | й ТЙЫЕМ ЗПМП" Й ЧЕМЙЛБС УЛПТ'Ш ОБ ЧУА ЪЕНМА еЗЙ ЕФУЛХА Й иБОББОУЛХА, Й ПФ"Щ ОБЫЙ ОЕ ОБИП"ЙМЙ ТП ЙФБОЙС. |
| Shuar | `Tímiatam tsuka tura itiurchatcha ámiayi Ejiptu Núnkanam. Tura jui Kanaan nunkanmasha Núnisan ámiayi. Tuma asamtai ii uuntri yurumkan penké Wáincharmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces vino hambre y gran tribulación en toda la tierra de Egipto y en Canaán, y nuestros padres no hallaban alimentos. |
| Swahili | Kisha, kulizuka njaa kubwa katika nchi yote ya Misri na Kanaani, ikasababisha dhiki kubwa. Babu zetu hawakuweza kupata chakula chochote. |
| Swedish | Och hungersnöd kom över hela Egypten och Kanaan med stort betryck, och våra fäder kunde icke få något att äta. |
| Thai | แล้วบังเกิ"การกัน"ารอาหารทั่วแผ่น"ินอียิปต์และแผ่น"ินคานาอัน และมีความลำบากมาก บรรพบุรุษของเราจึงไม่มีอาหาร |
| Ukrainian | А як голод прийшов на всю землю "гипетську та ханаанську, та велика біда, то поживи тоді не знаходили наші батьки. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, rata-mi oro' bohe hobo' hi tana' Mesir pai' tana' Kanaan. Rata-mi oro' bohe toe, wori' tauna to ntodohaka, pai' ntu'a-ta wo'o uma-pi ria pongkoni' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dearth": dearths. (additional references) | |
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"Dearth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daearth, dagarti, Daragh, darth, Dasaratha, deanth, deart, deathe, debart, Derartu, derat, derats, Dewart, dirth, dreath, eeurgh, gearth, Odberht, Peareth, searth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dearth" (pronounced der"th) |
| 2 | -er" th | berth, birth, earth, Firth, girth, mirth, rebirth, unearth, worth. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hatred, thread. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: dater, death, derat, earth, hared, hated, hater, heard, heart, rated, rathe, tared, trade, tread. | |
-2 letters: dare, dart, date, dear, drat, eath, hade, haed, haet, hard, hare, hart, hate, head, hear, heat, herd, rate, rath, read, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, trad. | |
-3 letters: are, art, ate, dah, ear, eat, edh, era, eta, eth, had, hae, hat, her, het, rad, rah, rat, red, ret, tad, tae, tar, tea, ted, the. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ah, ar, at, de, ed, eh, er, et, ha, he, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: airthed, breadth, charted, dearths, earthed, hardest, hardset, hatreds, hearted, hydrate, thrawed, threads, thready, trashed, wrathed. | |
+2 letters: adherent, antherid, authored, breadths, breathed, cathedra, chordate, daughter, detacher, fathered, gathered, goatherd, haltered, hardiest, headrest, hydrated, hydrates, lathered, neatherd, outheard, reheated, rethread, starched, thralled, thrashed, threaded, threader, threaped, threated, throated, thwarted, tracheid, trachled, trihedra, unthread, wreathed. | |
+3 letters: adherents, anhydrite, antherids, apartheid, atrophied, birthdate, blathered, cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, chaptered, charioted, chartered, chattered, chordates, daughters, deathtrap, dehydrate, detachers, diathermy, dishwater, draughted, earthward, feathered, fraughted, goatherds, godfather, handwrite, handwrote, hardiment, harvested, headfirst, headrests, headwater, heartened, heartland, heartwood, herniated, inearthed, leathered, neatherds, octahedra, overhated, preheated, printhead, ratcheted, recharted, rehydrate, rematched, repatched, rethreads, scratched, shattered, slathered, tarnished, therapsid, threaders, threadfin, threadier, threading, tracheids, trailhead, trauchled, trihedral, uncharted, unearthed, unthreads, watershed, weathered. | |
+4 letters: achondrite, adherently, affrighted, anhydrites, antheridia, apartheids, authorised, authorized, bighearted, birthdates, brachiated, broadsheet, cathedrals, coauthored, deathtraps, dehydrated, dehydrates, dehydrator, diarrhetic, diathermic, dichromate, diphtheria, disenthral, dishearten, dishwaters, dispatcher, dogcatcher, draughtier, driveshaft, earthbound, earthwards, enthralled, enwreathed, farfetched, farsighted, fatherhood, fatherland, fatshedera, featherbed, godfathers, handwrites, hardfisted, hardiments, headhunter, headmaster, headstream, headstrong, headwaiter, headwaters, heartlands, heartwoods, hereditary, hibernated, hinterland, hitherward, inbreathed, ingathered, inthralled, letterhead, merchanted, mithridate, motherland, octahedral, octahedron, orthograde, outcharged, outcharmed, outmarched, outreached, overheated, packthread, parachuted, parenthood, pathfinder, pentahedra, printheads, rachitides, reattached, regathered, rehydrated, rehydrates, rethreaded, rheumatoid, shortbread, straighted, subtrahend, tetrachord, tetrahedra, therapsids, threadbare, threadfins, threadiest, threadless, threadlike, threadworm, threatened, timberhead, tracheated, trailheads, trihedrals, turtlehead, underneath, unfathered, unthreaded, unwreathed, upgathered, watersheds, whitebeard, whiteboard. | |
+5 letters: achondrites, antheridial, antheridium, arthritides, arthrodeses, arthrodesis, atmosphered, autographed, bichromated, birdwatcher, breadthwise, broadsheets, camphorated, cantharides, cartwheeled, charactered, chlorinated, coldhearted, dehydrating, dehydration, dehydrators, diaphoretic, diarthroses, diathermies, dichromates, diphtherial, diphtherias, disenthrall, disenthrals, disheartens, dispatchers, dogcatchers, downhearted, draughtiest, draughtsmen, dreadnought, driveshafts, exhilarated, fatherhoods, fatherlands, fatshederas, featherbeds, featheredge, featherhead, forgathered, freehearted, goddaughter, godfathered, grandfather, grandmother, graphitized, hairbreadth, halfhearted, handbreadth, handcrafted, handwritten, hardhearted, hardmouthed, headhunters, headmasters, headquarter, headstreams, headwaiters, hemihydrate, hexahydrate, hindquarter, hinterlands, homesteader, hydrogenate, hydrolysate, hydrolyzate, hydroxylate, ironhearted, kindhearted, leatherwood, letterheads, lionhearted, mithridates, motherboard, motherlands, neanderthal, nearsighted, octahedrons, openhearted, orthopaedic, outpreached, overmatched, packthreads, parenthoods, pathfinders, pentahedral, pentahedron, rechartered, rehydrating, rehydration, reinhabited, rethreading, servanthood, shortbreads, shorthaired, shorthanded, slaughtered, softhearted, spreadsheet, stadtholder, stakeholder, stallholder, stewardship, subtrahends, superheated, telegraphed, tetrachords, tetradrachm, tetrahedral, tetrahedron, thermalized, thitherward, threadiness, threadworms, thunderclap, thunderhead, timberheads, transhipped, transshaped, truehearted, turtleheads, typographed, ultraheated, unchartered, unharvested, untarnished, unthreading, unweathered, urochordate, warmhearted, weakhearted, weatherized, whitebeards, whiteboards, whitherward. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 61 72 74 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .- .-. - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e a r t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0061 0072 0074 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387167848674 |
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