Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 one who lives through affliction; 
- Example: "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital"[syn: survivor, subsister]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
subsister
    n 1: one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the
         fire were taken to a hospital" [syn: survivor,
         subsister]