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   sustenance

   /ˈsʌstɪnəns/

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   • 1. food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment: "poor rural economies turned to potatoes for sustenance" Similar nourishmentfoodnutrimentnutritionfaredietdaily breadprovisionsrationsmeans of keeping body and soul togetherinformal:grubchowscoffformal:comestiblesprovenderarchaic:victualsvittlesviandsmeatrare:aliment
   • ▪ the maintaining of someone or something in life or existence: "he kept two or three cows for the sustenance of his family" Similar supportmaintenancekeepmeans of supportmeanslivinglivelihoodsubsistenceincomesource of income

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French soustenance, from the verb soustenir (see sustain).

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   What is the meaning of sustenance?

   • I sent a waiter for café-au-lait and a brioche and lectured her on the folly of going without proper sustenance. Decaying nature could no longer be recruited by ordinary sources of strength and sustenance. Sustenance definition: means of sustaining or supporting life or health; nourishment, especially food and drink.

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   What does sustaining nature mean?

   • Decaying nature could no longer be recruited by ordinary sources of strength and sustenance. Sustenance definition: means of sustaining or supporting life or health; nourishment, especially food and drink. See examples of SUSTENANCE used in a sentence.

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   What is the root word of sustenance?

   • Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy. Word Origin Middle English: from Old French soustenance, from the verb soustenir, from Latin sustinere, from sub- ‘from below’ + tenere ‘hold’. Definition of sustenance noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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   What is spiritual sustenance?

   • Sustenance comes from the word sustain, which means to continue. Sustenance is food or drink that allows you to continue to be alive. For many, prayer is a source of spiritual sustenance. If your chief source of sustenance is candy, you are going to get sick, but you will have a good time while it lasts.

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   The meaning of SUSTENANCE is means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living. How to use sustenance in a sentence.

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   SUSTENANCE definition: 1. food: 2. the ability of food to provide people and animals with what they need to make them…. Learn more.

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   Sustenance comes from the word sustain, which means to continue. Sustenance is food or drink that allows you to continue to be alive. For many, prayer is a source of spiritual sustenance.

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   Sustenance definition: means of sustaining or supporting life or health; nourishment, especially food and drink. See examples of SUSTENANCE used in a sentence.

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   SUSTENANCE meaning: 1. food: 2. the ability of food to provide people and animals with what they need to make them…. Learn more.

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   sustenance (of something) the process of making something continue to exist. Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.

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   n. 1. The supporting of life or health; maintenance or means of livelihood: The factory provides sustenance for half the town. 2. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health: looking for sustenance in the kitchen. 3. Something that sustains something else; essential support: researchers seeking financial sustenance.