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substance

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈsʌbstəns

Definitions

  1. juice (liquid from a plant)
  2. Physical matter; material
  3. Physical matter; material.
  4. substance (the most vital part of something)
  5. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties
  6. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  7. The essential part of anything; the most vital part
  8. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
  9. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
  10. Substantiality; solidity; firmness
  11. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  12. Material possessions; estate; property; resources
  13. Drugs (illegal narcotics)
  14. Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.

Equivalents

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Gaeilgedamhna
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Te Reo Māorikikotino
TürkçecisimmalMaya
Українськазмістречовина

Examples

“Study⟳ gives strength to the mind⟳; conversation, grace: the first apt to give⟳ stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form⟳ to the statue, the other polishes it.”
“His wasted hands were stretched out, and worked with a quick and convulsive motion, as if catching some small substances which kept eluding their grasp;...”
“Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock⟳ and use⟳ that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage⟳ this trick⟳ are already familiar to experts in the field.”
“Heroic virtue did his actions guide⟳, / And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.”
“1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.”
“It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.”
“Some textile fabrics have⟳ little substance.”
“a man of substance”
“And there wasted his substance with riotous living.”
“Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.”
“And as we have⟳ waſted our Strength and vital Subſtance in this profuſe manner, ſo we have⟳ ſhamefully miſapplied it to Ends at leaſt very different from thoſe for which we undertook the War, and often to effect others which after a Peace we may ſeverely repent.”
“substance abuse”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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