Definitions for sustainer

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sustainer sus·tain·er

Spelling: [suh-stey-ner]

IPA: /səˈsteɪ nər/

Sustainer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 730 anagrams from letters in sustainer (aeinrsstu).

Definitions for sustainer

noun

1. a person or thing that sustains.
2. Rocketry. any stage of a multistage rocket or guided missile that sustains flight after the burnout of the booster. the rocket engine or cluster of engines contained in such a stage.

Origin of sustainer

First recorded in 1350-1400, sustainer is from the Middle English word sosteynere. See sustain, -er¹

Examples for sustainer

A suffocating silence filled the sustainer Theater on LSA Anaconda in Iraq.

They unite in the worship of one divine Creator and sustainer of the universe.

Thus the star was not only the Great Mother of all, but the sustainer of all.

At all events, "God the Invisible King" is not the creator and sustainer of the universe.

To whom belongs this rôle of educator, protector, sustainer?

Light is the sustainer of motion both in the earth and in the blood.

Not only is the sun the giver and sustainer of life, but it is also the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He says also that He is not a creature, but the sustainer of all things.

For in what would have been a valley of death he was the sole source and sustainer of life.

God be with you, my dearest Miss Clary, and be your comforter and sustainer.