sustainer
A person or thing that sustainsA person or thing that sustains.
» God is the creator and sustainer of the universe.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 sensesA person or thing that sustains.
A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.
(US)A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
(US, obsolete)A radio program without a commercial sponsor.
- someone who upholds or maintains
Examples
2 sentencesGod is the creator and sustainer of the universe.
Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the destroyer.
Origin
From sustain + -er.From sustain + -er.
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Forms
plural: sustainers| Singular | sustainer |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- someone who upholds or maintains:upholdermaintainer
Word family
2 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.