dearth

«dearth» in Mova's school dictionary: a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (plural dearths)

meaning for a pupil

A dearth is a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something, such as food. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the tales, a dearth is a famine or a time when there is too little food or too few people to choose from

examples

• There was a dearth of rain that summer and the crops failed. tree →
• Our town had a dearth of doctors. tree →
• In the dearth of bread, the family grew hungry. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dearth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.