dearth, paucity
(noun) an insufficient quantity or number
Source: WordNet® 3.1
paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)
Fewness in number; too few.
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
• (fewness in number): See fewness
• (smallness in size or amount): dearth, scantiness, scarcity; see also lack
Source: Wiktionary
Pau"ci*ty, n. Etym: [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité See Few.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 May 2025
(noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; “he sent a runner over with the contract”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
