hunger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The feeling of needing or wanting to eat.

   Many children in the region suffer from hunger.

2. 2
   noun

   A strong desire or need for something.

   The team had a great hunger to win the competition.

3. 3
   verb

   To have a strong desire for something.

   She hungered for adventure and a life away from home.

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”).

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