hunger

Forms

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural: hungers

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1): hunger
past (v2): hungered
past participle (v3): hungered
present participle: hungering
3rd person singular: hungers

Definitions

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A need or compelling desire for food.
- My stomach is clenched with hunger.
2.Any strong desire or need.
- O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
- When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?
- I have a hunger to win.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1.To be in need of food.
2.To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
- In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
- Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.
- I hungered for your love.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4622

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Rare
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

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”).

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

VerbVerb×A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

VerbVerb×A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Overall

By learning goal

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.