sustenance

Other forms of sustenance

plural

sustenances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sustenance

What does sustenance mean?

sustenance means "a source of materials to nourish the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sustenance?

sustenance has 3 syllables: sus-te-nance. The stress falls on "sus". In IPA it is /ˈsʌstənəns/.

What is another word for sustenance?

Close synonyms include nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, aliment, alimentation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sustenance a common word?

sustenance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.