dearth
A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensiveA period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
» There is no dearth of good will, only of courage.
В доброй воле нет недостатка, только в храбрости.
Значение
значений: 3(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
(шире, исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
(исчисляемое, устаревшее, неисчисляемое)Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
- an insufficient quantity or number
- an acute insufficiency
Примеры
предложений: 7There is no dearth of good will, only of courage.
В доброй воле нет недостатка, только в храбрости. — Ooneykcall
Shortly thereafter, the dearth returned to the house.
For a writer there is no dearth of detractors.
deEinem Schriftsteller mangelt es nie an Kritikern. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
There is a dearth of available medical personnel to administer vaccines.
There is a dearth of sentences involving the word "dearth" on Tatoeba.
Происхождение
First attested at least as early as the late 1300s, and appearing in Tyndale’s PentateuchFirst attested at least as early as the late 1300s, and appearing in Tyndale’s Pentateuch (1530) as well as the Coverdale Bible (1535). From Middle English derth, derthe, derþe, probably from Old English *dīerþ, *dīerþu, from Proto-West Germanic *diuriþu, from Proto-Germanic *diuriþō (“costliness, preciousness, honour”); corresponding to dear + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Saxon diuriða (“glory, honour; preciousness”), West Frisian djoerte (“love, dearness, value, worth”), Dutch duurte (“dearness; scarcity, dearth”), Icelandic dýrð (“honour, glory”).
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Формы
мн. число: dearthsСинонимы
синонимов: 5Однокоренные
связанных слов: 2Уроки к слову
уроков: 1- A1Исчисляемые и неисчисляемые существительные — Потому что оно может быть неисчисляемым