substance

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Alternative forms

• substaunce

Etymology

From Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist; literally, stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

substance (plural substances)

1. Physical matter; material.
2. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
3. Considerable wealth or resources.

   A man of substance.

4. Drugs (illegal narcotics)

   substance abuse

Related terms

• stand under
• subsist
• substantial
• substantive
• understand

Translations

matter

Catalan: substància (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 物質 (cmn), 物质 (cmn) (wùzhì) Czech: látka (cs) f. Danish: substans (da), masse (da) Dutch: substantie (nl) f. Esperanto: substanco (eo) Finnish: aine (fi), materia (fi) French: substance (fr) f. German: Substanz (de) f., Stoff (de) m. Greek: ουσία (el) (ousía) f. Hebrew: חומר (he) (khómer) m. Hindi: पदार्थ (hi) (padārth) m.

Hungarian: anyag (hu), tartalom (hu) Japanese: 物質 (ja) (busshitsu) Latin: substantia (la) f. Latvian: viela (lv) f. Norwegian: substans (no) m., masse (no) m. Polish: substancja (pl) f. Portuguese: substância (pt) f. Romanian: substanță (ro) f. Russian: вещество (ru) (veščestvó) n. Spanish: sustancia (es) f. Swedish: ämne (sv) n., substans (sv) c. Telugu: పదార్థము (te) (padaarthamu) Turkish: madde (tr)

essential part

Catalan: substància (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 實質 (cmn), 实质 (cmn) (shízhì) Danish: substans (da), hovedindhold (da) Finnish: ydin (fi), substanssi (fi) French: substance (fr) f. German: Substanz (de) f. Greek: ουσία (el) (ousía) f. Hebrew: תוכן (he) (tókhen) m. Hungarian: lényeg (hu)

Japanese: 骨子 (ja) (kosshi) Latin: substantia (la) f. Norwegian: substans (no) m. Polish: istota (pl) f. Portuguese: substância (pt) f. Romanian: substanță (ro) f. Scottish Gaelic: susbaint (gd) f. Spanish: sustancia (es) f. Swedish: substans (sv) c.

considerable wealth

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: formue (da) Finnish: varat (fi) German: Substanz (de) f. Hungarian: vagyon (hu) Japanese: 本質 (ja) (honshitsu), 実体 (ja) (jittai)

Norwegian: formue (no) m. Polish: majątek (pl) m. Romanian: substanță (ro) f. Russian: вес (ru) (ves) m. Spanish: sustancia (es) f. Swedish: resurs (sv) c.

drugs

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: aineet (fi) German: Substanz (de) f. Greek: ουσίες (el) (ousíes) f. pl. Hungarian: szer (hu)

Norwegian: narkotika (no) Polish: narkotyk (pl) m. Romanian: drog (ro) n., droguri (ro) n. pl., narcotic (ro) n. Russian: вещество (ru) (veščestvó) n. Swedish: substans (sv) c.

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Albanian: lëndë Arabic: مادة (mádda) f. Azeri: maddə Bulgarian: вещество (vešestvo) n. Dutch: substantie Esperanto: substanco Estonian: aine Indonesian: bahan Interlingua: substantia Italian: sostanza f.

Korean: 실체 (silche), 물질 (muljil) Lithuanian: turinys Middle English: substaunce Persian: خلاصه (kholâseh) Romanian: substanță f. Slovak: hmota f. Turkish: madde Uyghur: (madda) Vietnamese: chất Welsh: sylwedd Yiddish: מאַטעריע (materye)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist; literally, stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /syb.stɑ̃s/ X-SAMPA: /syb.stA~s/

Noun

substance f. (plural substances)

1. substance

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