substantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: sŭb′stənt
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA: /ˈsʌb.stənt/; (also Scotland) /ˈsʌb.stʌnt/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsɐb.stənt/
• 韻: -ʌbstənt
• ハイフネーション: sub‧stant

名詞

substant (plural substants)

1. Something that subsists.
   • 1597, (Can we date this quote by John Payne, Royall Exchange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The substants of bodie and soule have nothinge commune with this spirituall mariage. (quoted in OED)

形容詞

substant (comparative more substant, superlative most substant)

1. (rare) Substantial; firm.
   • 1884, The Century: Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 27, New York City: The Century Company, page 146:

     [The glacier's] substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, — breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, disintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.

派生語

Further reading

• “substant, n. & adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• “Substant”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, sourced from Noah Porter, editor, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Dictionary, London: George Bell & Sons and Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 22 April 2026: “Substantial; firm.”
• “Substant, adj.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 22 April 2026: “Substantial; firm.”

動詞

substant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of substō