Definition of Hunger
Hunger

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

Any strong eager desire.

To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

To have an eager desire; to long.

To make hungry; to famish.

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Hunger Quotations

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa

Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell

Hunger Translations

hunger in Danish is sult
hunger in Dutch is honger
hunger in French is faim
hunger in German is Hunger, hungern
hunger in Italian is fame
hunger in Latin is esuritio, ieiunitas
hunger in Norwegian is sult
hunger in Portuguese is fome
hunger in Swedish is hungra, hunger