sustenance

[ suhs-tuh-nuh ns ]

/ ˈsʌs tə nəns /

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noun

means of sustaining life; nourishment.

means of livelihood.

the process of sustaining.

the state of being sustained.

Origin of sustenance

1250–1300; Middle English sustena(u)nce < Anglo-French; Old French sostenance. See sustain, -ance

OTHER WORDS FROM sustenance

sus·te·nance·less, adjective non·sus·te·nance, noun self-sus·te·nance, noun

Words nearby sustenance

sustained-action tablet, sustained-release, sustainer, sustaining pedal, sustaining program, sustenance, sustentacular, sustentacular cell, sustentaculum, sustentation, sustentation fund

Example sentences from the Web for sustenance

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

sustenance

/ (ˈsʌstənəns) /

noun

means 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 sustenance

C13: from Old French sostenance, from sustenir to sustain

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