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sustenances

sustenances is the plural of sustenance.

Meaning of sustenance

Noun

sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)

  1. 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

Questions about sustenances

What is sustenances the plural of?
Sustenances is the plural of sustenance.

Words near sustenances in the dictionary

  1. sustainwashing
  2. Sustaita
  3. Sustaitas
  4. sustenacular
  5. sustenance
  6. sustenances
  7. sustenation
  8. sustentacle
  9. sustentacles
  10. sustentacula
  11. sustentacular

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