Survivor
[sə'vaɪvə] or [sɚ'vaɪvɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an animal that survives in spite of adversity; 'only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters'.
(noun.) one who outlives another; 'he left his farm to his survivors'.
(noun.) one who lives through affliction; 'the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital'.
Typed by Garrett--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
(n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything.
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Examples
- Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The moment at length came, when the last blow was given to the last of the house: the youthful survivor of her race sat alone among the dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This humble birth, however, he would sink in oblivion, and become widely known as Prince Caliphronas, the sole survivor of a famous Fanariot family. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We must all die; nor leave survivor nor heir to the wide inheritance of earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Until about the middle of the Nineteenth Century the survivor of an operation was an unsymmetrical, unique, and pitiful object. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But it was still possible, that, could I visit the whole extent of earth, I should find in some part of the wide extent a survivor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Many sorrows have befallen man during his chequered course; and many a woe-stricken mourner has found himself sole survivor among many. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Those who love the survivors the least, I believe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Guns which were heard at Brussels were ploughing up their ranks, and comrades falling, and the resolute survivors closing in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Boers were, indeed, in many respects, the last survivors of Aryanism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It may have been that the survivors hoped to retain thereby some vestige of the strength and virtue that had died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our little town of Windsor, in which the survivors from the neighbouring counties were chiefly assembled, wore a melancholy aspect. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ten survivors out of nearly two hundred people! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- During this disastrous journey we lost all those, not of our own family, to whom we had particularly attached ourselves among the survivors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The survivors of the wreck were rescued by an American vessel bound for Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These arrangements having been made, the survivors of the fierce fighting returned to the village, in order to take the rest they so much needed. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He can no longer be a fit subject for pity; the survivors are the greatest sufferers, and for them time is the only consolation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In each case there was a massacre, the plundering of the city, and the selling of the survivors into slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It looks as if we were the only survivors, remarked Crispin moodily, as they resumed their journey. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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