sustenance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle English, from Old French, from sustenir (14c), from Latin sustenire.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/
Noun[edit]
sustenance (countable and uncountable; plural sustenances)
- Something that provides support or nourishment.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
