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Definition of hunger : 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
2. Any strong eager desire.
3. To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
4. To have an eager desire; to long.
5. To make hungry; to famish.

Synonyms:

enthusiasm, avidity, mania, look for, keenness, appetency, drought, voracity, vacancy, hungriness, taste, ravenous, hungry, drive, aridness, belly, famine, peckishness, letch, pining, starvation, impatience, famish, thirstiness, on an empty stomach, glut, appetite, gluttony, bottomless pit, void, appetition, avidness, water, ravenousness, aspire, greediness, munchies, inclination, famishment, lust after, hankering, the munchies, ache, emptiness, appetence, desire for food, ardor, panting, jones, peckish, a stomach for, starving, starve, desirousness, polydipsia, yen, aching void, stomach, excitement, have your heart set on (doing) something, aridity, sweet tooth

hope, urge, eagerness, pine, fondness, need, ardency, yearning, desire, yearn, acquisitiveness, lust, covetousness, craving, want, fancy, itch, welcome, thirst, crave, longing, expect, passion, amorousness, greed, expectation, grasp, hanker, covet, wish, long

Usage examples:

• Their hands shaking with nervous hunger, the two fell upon the remaining meat. - "The Eternal Maiden", T. Everett Harré.
• If they could get the seal, they would not die of hunger. - "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans", Edward Eggleston.
• Yet he felt neither the heat, nor any fatigue, nor any hunger. - "Bye-Ways", Robert Smythe Hichens.