A famine year is a year when the harvest failed and people starved. A famine year in the north, remembered as a famine year.
The failure is usually the last of several bad seasons rather than one, since a store of grain covers a single loss. Most famine years in history were made far worse by how food was distributed.
1nounfamine yearA year when the harvest failed and people starved.
“The parish records show three burials a week in that famine year.”
famine year is a year.
Practised in History & Eras