survivor
NounUS[ser-vahy-ver]/sɚˈvaɪvɚ/3 syllables
Synonyms:
subsister
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)survivors
- one who lives through affliction“the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital”Synonyms: subsisterType of unfortunate, unfortunate person
- one who outlives another“he left his farm to his survivors”Type of actor, doer
- an animal that survives in spite of adversity“only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters”Type of animal, animate being
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Translations
Noun one who survives
- Spanish
- superviviente
- French
- survivant
- German
- Überlebender
- Italian
- superstite
- Portuguese
- sobrevivente
- Russian
- уцеле́вший ucelévšij
- Chinese
- 幸存者 xìngcúnzhě
- Japanese
- 生存者 seizonsha
- Dutch
- overlevende
- Polish
- ocalały
11 more languages
- Swedish
- överlevare
- Korean
- 생존자 saengjonja
- Indonesian
- penyintas
- Hungarian
- túlélő
- Portuguese (PT)
- sobrevivente
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 幸存者 xìngcúnzhě
- Catalan
- supervivent
- Finnish
- selviytyjä
- Romanian
- supraviețuitor
- Scottish Gaelic
- neach-tàrrsainn
- Swahili
- nusura
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Sur·viv′or noun
1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow.— William Shakespeare
2. Law The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. Blackstone, Sir William
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54