sustenance
/ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/
sustenance noun: something that provides support or nourishment.
Noun
sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)
- Something that provides support or nourishment.
- 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, in Internal Combustion
sustenance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sustenance in Hindi
- sustenance, victuals; food and drink
- आहार āhār
sustenance in Tamil
- உபசீவனம், தாரகம், வாழ்வாதாரப் பொருள்கள், உணவு உதவி, உணா, உணவு
sustenance in Urdu
- غذا, پرورش, روٹی
sustenance in Bengali
- something that provides support or nourishment
- রিজিক rijik, রুজি ruji, জীবিকা jibika
More languagesFewer languages
- sustenance in Malayalam
- പാലനം, പോറ്റൽ, ഉപജീവനമാർഗ്ഗം
- sustenance in Kannada
- ಪುಷ್ಟಿ, ಪೋಷಣೆ, ಪೌಷ್ಟಿಕತೆ, ಶಕ್ತಿಕೊಡುವ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯ
- sustenance in Punjabi
- ਰਿਜ਼ਕ਼ rizaq, ਗੁਜਾਰਾ gujārā
- sustenance in Gujarati
- રોટલી pũliṅg
Examples of sustenance in a sentence
- We are merely a goal-less hive, a hive without purpose other than sustenance.
- The Gospels and the Bible should be all a prisoner needs for spiritual sustenance.”
- “I've never met a sanguinarian who actually gets any form of sustenance off drinking blood,” he says.
Forms of sustenance
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Origin of sustenance
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. Equivalent to sustain + -ance.
Words formed from sustenance
Questions about sustenance
- What does sustenance mean?
- Sustenance means something that provides support or nourishment.
- What is sustenance in Hindi?
- Sustenance in Hindi is आहार (āhār). See Sustenance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sustenance?
- Sustenance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sustenance?
- Sustenance is pronounced /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/.
- What is the plural of sustenance?
- The plural of sustenance is sustenances.
Words near sustenance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sustenance (page history and authors); आहार (Hindi) (page history and authors); sustenance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sustenance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sustenance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sustenance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਗੁਜਾਰਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); રોટલી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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