Sustenance: Definition and part of speech

Sustenance

  1. n. That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.
  2. n. The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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