verb
Meaning 1
To survive on a minimum of resources.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
subsist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/səbˈsɪst/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɪst
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 B S IH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To have ontological reality; to exist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To retain a certain state; to continue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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verb
Meaning 4
To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
support oneself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he could barely exist on such a low wage
- Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
- Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exist, survive, live
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: breathe, freewheel, drift
History
Etymology
From Latin subsistō (“halt, stop”), from sub (“below”) + sistō (“stand, place”). Compare consist, desist, exist, insist, persist.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: преживявам (preživjavam) — to survive
- Catalan: subsistir — to survive
- Finnish: kituuttaa — to survive
- French: subsister — to survive
- Italian: sussistere — to survive
- Portuguese: subsistir — to survive
- Russian: выживать (vyživatʹ) — to survive
- Spanish: subsistir — to survive