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Definition of Survivor

1. Noun. One who lives through affliction. "The survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital"

2. Noun. One who outlives another. "He left his farm to his survivors"

3. Noun. An animal that survives in spite of adversity. "Only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"

Definition of Survivor

1. n. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

Definition of Survivor

1. Noun. One who survives; one who endures through disaster or hardship. ¹

2. Noun. One who knew a specific decedent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Survivor

1. one that survives [n -S] - See also: survives

Lexicographical Neighbors of Survivor

survivalism survivalist survivalists survivals survivance survivances survive survived surviver survivers

survives survivin surviving surviving spouse surviving spouses survivor (current term) survivor guilt survivors survivors insurance survivorship

survivorship annuity survivorships survivour survivours sus- sus law susannite susceptance susceptances susceptibilities

Literary usage of Survivor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Melville Madison Bigelow (1893)
"I. On construing survivor as synonymous with Other. 1. survivor if unexplained is construed ... Words amounting to an Express Gift to the survivor in all ..."

2. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1881)
"The objection to the construction adopted in the two last cases is, that it renders the gift to the survivor wholly inoperative. ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"the settlement of community debts.1 The survivor may generally settle up the community with or without statutory authority, and with or without going into ..."

4. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman (1844)
"I. On construing survivor at syno- nymous with other. original Shares extend to accruing Shares. II. Whether accruing Shares are subject to ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"(6) But the word "survivor " must receive its natural construction, and not be read as meaning ... When the word "survivor" is ap- HL Cas. 186 ; Hawkins v. ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"A joint appointment by deed, subject to a proviso for revocation and re-appointment by the husband and wife and the survivor, well revoked by the wife ..."

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