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Sustenance

//ˈsʌs.tə.nəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something that provides support or nourishment. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence wordnet
  3. 3
    a source of materials to nourish the body wordnet
  4. 4
    the financial means whereby one lives wordnet

Etymology

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.

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