Sustenance Meaning
/ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomething that provides support or nourishment.
Sentence Examples
It was a source of sustenance.
Tom kept two or three cows for the sustenance of his family.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The refugees urgently need food and clean water for their daily ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hikers carried enough food and water to provide them with ____ during their long journey through the forest today.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The refugees urgently need food and clean water for their daily ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hikers carried enough food and water to provide them with ____ during their long journey through the forest today.