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sustenance

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succor
noun. assistance
  • aid
  • help
  • relief
  • support
  • sustenance

pabulum
noun. nourishment
  • diet
  • food
  • fuel
  • nutrient
  • nutriment
  • support
  • sustenance

bread and butter
noun. sustaining income
  • bread
  • daily bread
  • keep
  • livelihood
  • living
  • means
  • meat
  • staff of life
  • support
  • sustenance

aliment
noun. food
  • comestible
  • eats
  • edible
  • esculent
  • fare
  • foodstuff
  • nourishment
  • nurture
  • nutriment
  • nutrition
  • pabulum
  • provender
  • provision
  • sustenance
  • victuals

alimentation
noun. nourishment
  • bread
  • bread and butter
  • food
  • livelihood
  • maintenance
  • nutriment
  • nutrition
  • subsistence
  • support
  • sustenance

foodstuff
noun. food
  • aliment
  • comestible
  • comestibles
  • eatables
  • edible
  • edibles
  • fare
  • fodder
  • groceries
  • grub
  • nourishment
  • nutriment
  • nutrition
  • pabulum
  • provender
  • provision
  • provisions
  • rations
  • staple
  • sustenance
  • viand
  • viands
  • victual
  • victuals

palliation
noun. relief
  • abatement
  • allayment
  • alleviation
  • amelioration
  • appeasement
  • assistance
  • assuagement
  • balm
  • break
  • breather
  • cheer
  • comfort
  • comforting
  • consolation
  • contentment
  • cure
  • deliverance
  • diversion
  • ease
  • easement
  • extrication
  • fix
  • hand
  • happiness
  • help
  • letup
  • lift
  • lightening
  • load off one's mind
  • maintenance
  • mitigation
  • mollification
  • palliative
  • quick fix
  • refreshment
  • release
  • remission
  • reprieve
  • respite
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • satisfaction
  • softening
  • solace
  • succor
  • support
  • sustenance

pap
noun. food
  • aliment
  • bite
  • board
  • bread
  • cheer
  • chow
  • comestible
  • cookery
  • cooking
  • cuisine
  • diet
  • drink
  • eatable
  • eats
  • edible
  • entrée
  • esculent
  • fare
  • fast food
  • feed
  • fodder
  • foodstuff
  • goodies
  • grit
  • groceries
  • grub
  • handout
  • home cooking
  • keep
  • larder
  • meal
  • meat
  • menu
  • mess
  • moveable feast
  • nourishment
  • nurture
  • nutriment
  • nutrition
  • pabulum
  • provender
  • provision
  • ration
  • refreshment
  • slop
  • snack
  • store
  • subsistence
  • support
  • sustenance
  • table
  • take out
  • tuck
  • viand
  • victual
  • vittles

persistency
noun. continuation
  • assiduity
  • augmenting
  • continuance
  • continuing
  • continuity
  • continuum
  • duration
  • endurance
  • enduring
  • extension
  • furtherance
  • going on
  • increase
  • increasing
  • line
  • maintaining
  • perpetuating
  • perpetuation
  • persistence
  • persisting
  • postscript
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • producing
  • production
  • prolongation
  • prolonging
  • propagation
  • protracting
  • protraction
  • sequel
  • succession
  • supplement
  • sustaining
  • sustenance
  • tenacity
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Word Origin & History

sustenance c.1300, "means of living, subsistence, livelihood," from O.Fr. sustenance (Fr. soutenance), from L.L. sustinentia "endurance," from L. sustinens, prp. of sustinere (see sustain). Meaning "action of sustaining life by food" is from late 14c. Sense of "nourishment" is recorded from c.1489.

Example Sentences for sustenance

What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

We found a farmer just up, and made him give us sustenance for ourselves and our horses.

How can I turn to another for the sustenance which you alone can give?

He was paying for his own sustenance, and with the first money he had ever earned.

I could not tell what sort of sustenance she would look for from my sagacity.

I respond to you, 'Captain, I cannot refuse, for I am dying for lack of sustenance.

For that matter, the very oil they breed in, gives them sustenance.

The cost of sustenance is unbearable and he makes no money at all.

There is nothing out of which it will not contrive to get some sustenance.

It has the power of growth, sustenance and reproduction like plants.

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