famine vs the Great Hunger

famine and the Great Hunger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
famine	Yes	No	No	No
the Great Hunger	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, the Great Hunger is a hyponym of famine; that is, the Great Hunger is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than famine:

famine: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
the Great Hunger: a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

Other hyponyms of famine include the Great Calamity, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine.

famine (noun)	the Great Hunger (noun)
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death	a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
an acute insufficiency

famine vs the Great Hunger

famine and the Great Hunger both are nouns.

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