care, maintenance, upkeep
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”
sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep
(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; “they were in want of sustenance”; “fishing was their main sustainment”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
upkeep (usually uncountable, plural upkeeps)
Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.
upkeep (third-person singular simple present upkeeps, present participle upkeeping, simple past and past participle upkept)
(transitive, British) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.
• keep up
Source: Wiktionary
Up"keep`, n.
Definition: The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance. "Horse artillery . . . expensive in the upkeep." Scribner's Mag.
Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings. A. R. Colquhoun.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 June 2025
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
