want vs famine

want and famine both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
want	Yes	No	Yes	No
famine	Yes	No	No	No

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

want (noun)	famine (noun)
a specific feeling of desire	a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
anything that is necessary but lacking	an acute insufficiency
a state of extreme poverty
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

want (verb)	famine (verb)
wish or demand the presence of
have need of
hunt or look for; want for a particular reason
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
be without, lack; be deficient in