"sustenance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sustenance.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sustenances [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ten-}}, {{inh|en|enm|sustenaunce}} Middle English sustenaunce, {{der|en|fro|sustenance}} Old French sustenance, {{m|fro|sustenir}} sustenir, {{m|fr|-ance}} -ance, {{der|en|VL.|*sustenire}} Vulgar Latin *sustenire, {{der|en|la|sustinere}} Latin sustinere, {{cog|LL.|sustinentia}} Late Latin sustinentia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)
  1. Something that provides support or nourishment. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: subsistence Translations (something that provides support or nourishment): διατροφή (diatrophḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), রিজিক (rijik) (Bengali), রুজি (ruji) (Bengali), জীবিকা (jibika) (Bengali), препитание (prepitanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), издръжка (izdrǎžka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 维持生计 (Chinese Mandarin), ylläpito (Finnish), mantenza [feminine] (Galician), Nahrung [feminine] (German), Verpflegung [feminine] (German), פַּרְנָסָה (Hebrew), viðurværi [neuter] (Icelandic), fæði [neuter] (Icelandic), matur [masculine] (Icelandic), næring [feminine] (Icelandic), cothabháil [feminine] (Irish), pābulum [neuter] (Latin), manapou (Maori), itaca (Nahuatl), yistʼéí (Navajo), пропита́ние (propitánije) [neuter] (Russian), по̀дршка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), по̏тпора [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pòdrška [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pȍtpora [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-sustenance-en-noun-BGphaWPq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Navajo terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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