SURVIVOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does survivor mean? 

• SURVIVOR (noun)
  The noun SURVIVOR has 3 senses:

1. one who lives through affliction

2. one who outlives another

3. an animal that survives in spite of adversity

  Familiarity information: SURVIVOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURVIVOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who lives through affliction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

subsister; survivor

Context example:

the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital

Hypernyms ("survivor" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Derivation:

survive (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

One who outlives another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he left his farm to his survivors

Hypernyms ("survivor" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

survive (live longer than)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An animal that survives in spite of adversity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Context example:

only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters

Hypernyms ("survivor" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

 Context examples 

This finding creates an opportunity to determine ways to restore oxygen loss and potentially reduce life-long impacts of preterm survivors.

(Lack of Oxygen, Not Blood Flow, Delays Brain Maturation in Preterm Infants, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Survivors may experience long-term chemotherapy side effects, such as poor growth.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

The Office of Cancer Survivorship was established in 1996 to provide support and a focus for research and other activities dealing with cancer survivors.

(Office of Cancer Survivorship, NCI Thesaurus)

We are both wanted at Cliffe Royal—we, the two survivors of that black business.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Survivors may develop long-term disabilities, such as intellectual impairment or cerebral palsy.

(Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation, NIH)

An NCI-funded multi-institution project designed to better understand late effects of cancer upon cancer survivors

(Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, NCI Thesaurus)

They scattered far and wide over the country, and it was not till a week later that the last of the survivors gathered together in a lower valley and counted their losses.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All cancer survivors should have follow-up care.

(Cancer--Living with Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

To find similar broadly protective human antibodies, researchers surveyed 349 human monoclonal antibodies derived from the blood of one survivor of the recent West African Ebola outbreak, which was caused by Zaire ebolavirus.

(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)