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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. still in existence;
- Example: "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"
- Example: "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
[syn: surviving, living]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Survived; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Surviving.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
   + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]
   To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than;
   to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
   --Cowper.
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         I'll assure her of
         Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
         In all my lands and leases whatsoever.   --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Surviving \Sur*viv"ing\, a.
   Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving
   friends; surviving customs.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

surviving
    adj 1: still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia
           is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been
           long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil";
           "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
           [syn: surviving, living]