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[ suhs-tuh-nuhns ] / ˈsʌs tə nəns / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sustenance ON THESAURUS.COM
nounmeans of sustaining life; nourishment. means of livelihood. the process of sustaining. the state of being sustained. Origin of sustenance1250–1300; Middle English sustena( u) nce<Anglo-French; Old French sostenance.See sustain, -ance OTHER WORDS FROM sustenancesus·te·nance·less, adjectivenon·sus·te·nance, nounself-sus·te·nance, nounWords nearby sustenancesustained-release, sustained yield, sustainer, sustaining pedal, sustaining program, sustenance, sustentacular, sustentacular cell, sustentaculum, sustentation, sustentation fund Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sustenanceThe moment we take sustenance from it, we enfold it and its inhabitants into our bodies. What the Meadow Teaches Us - Issue 90: Something Green|Andreas Weber|September 16, 2020|Nautilus The formula used to determine “absolute poverty” is defined as an income that allows for a basic level of sustenance. The U.S. Is Losing a Generation to Poverty|Monica Potts|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST During particularly harsh beginnings upon landing in the New World, desperate colonists resorted to human flesh for sustenance. Not Just Cannibalism: Seven Ways Colonial Jamestown Was a Living Hell|Nina Strochlic|May 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST Sustenance programs for the poor are being raided to pay for public union jobs. Democrats Betrayed Us|Mark McKinnon|August 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST
I still had a family that looked to me for their sustenance. Leonid McGill, Private Investigator|Walter Mosley|March 24, 2009|DAILY BEAST Nature has helped to discourage native effort by providing the means of sustenance over-lavishly, in one sense. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1|Various One is sustenance of the body; the second, of the soul; the third is the partaking of the holy housel. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church|lfric The figments which used to furnish it with sustenance are dead. The Contemporary Review, January 1883|Various The brute obeys law unwittingly in the sustenance and transmission of life. The Things Which Remain|Daniel A. Goodsell Here happened an interruption—a servant with a tray of sustenance, comprising more champagne. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)|Arnold Bennett
British Dictionary definitions for sustenance
nounmeans of sustaining health or life; nourishment means of maintenance; livelihood Also: sustention (səˈstɛnʃən) the act or process of sustaining or the quality of being sustained Word Origin for sustenanceC13: from Old French sostenance, from sustenir to sustain Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sustenancesubsistence, nourishment, nutrition, livelihood, pap, wherewithal, aliment, food, provision, support, ration, bacon, refreshment, keep, provender, maintenance, aid, comestible, salt, bread |