subsistence : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: subsistence	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for subsistence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subsistence n minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence" a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence" the state of existing in reality; having substance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subsistence \Subsist"ence\, n. [Cf. F. subsistance, L. subsistentia.] 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. --Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence* of qualities in bodies. 3. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. --Addison. 4. (Theol.) Same as {Hypostasis}, 2. --Hooker.