Masculine
soutien
- (masculine) support (physical)
- (masculine) support (psychological/emotional)
- (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, masculine) ellipsis of soutien-gorge
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/su.tjɛ̃/
Etymology
Deverbal from soutenir. (soutien-gorge): Compare typologically Russian подтя́жки (podtjážki) (distantly cognate vie Proto-Indo-European *ten-).
Related words
financial backing
financial support
key man
main body
corps principal
homme clé
personnage central
soutien logistique du combat
service de soutien logistique
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