Pronunciation Noun
dearth
- A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
- (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXV:
- Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXV:
- (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
- French: disette
- German: Hungersnot
- Italian: carestia
- Portuguese: fome
- Russian: недоста́точность
- Spanish: hambruna
- French: pénurie
- German: Mangel, Knappheit
- Italian: scarsità, carenza
- Portuguese: falta, escassez
- Russian: ску́дность
- Spanish: escasez, cortedad
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