Hypertext Webster Gateway: "survivor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Survivor \Sur*viv"or\, n.
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. --Shak.
2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two
persons having a joint interest in anything. --Blackstone.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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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