Definition/Meaning of hunger

• English - Noun: hunger (countable and uncountable, plural hungers) (countable, uncountable) A need or compelling desire for food . (broadly, countable, uncountable) Any strong desire or need. I have a hunger to win. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1: O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
• English - Verb: hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered) (intransitive) To be in need of food . 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:20: 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…
• English - References: hunger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913
• English - Anagrams: rehung
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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”),…