{
    "term": "famine",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a lack of food during a long period of time in a region",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a severe famine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "disasters such as floods and famine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the threat of **widespread famine** in the area"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to raise money for **famine relief**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Four million people are now facing famine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thousands of people died during the terrible famine of that year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When famine strikes, it is often women and children who suffer the most."
                },
                {
                    "text": "countries that regularly suffer famines"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["devastating", "great", "severe"],
                "verb + famine": ["face", "suffer", "survive"],
                "famine + verb": ["strike"],
                "famine + noun": ["relief", "victim"],
                "preposition": ["during a/​the famine"],
                "phrases": ["a threat of famine"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæmɪn/",
                "audio": "fa/famine/famine__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæmɪn/",
                "audio": "fa/famine/famine__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from faim ‘hunger’, from Latin fames."
}