hunger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   strong desire for something, but not food or drink

   The team had a great hunger to win the competition.

2. 2
   noun

   Any strong desire or need.

   I have a hunger to win.

3. 3
   verb

   To be in need of food.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

   I hungered for your love.

5. 5
   noun

   a physiological need for food

6. 6
   verb

   be hungry

7. 7
   verb

   have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

8. 8
   verb

   feel the need to eat

Etymology

From 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”).