survivor (n.)

  1. one who lives through affliction; the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital

    [ Syn: subsister ]

  2. one who outlives another; he left his farm to his survivors'

  3. an animal that survives in spite of adversity; only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters'

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