a person who continues to live, especially in spite of being nearly killed or experiencing great danger or difficulty:
the sole / only survivor of the massacre * The plane crashed in an area of dense jungle. There were no survivors. * There are only a few survivors from the original team (= members who remain in it while others have been replaced). * She'll cope. She's one of life's great survivors (= sb who deals very well with difficult situations). * A movie has been made about the last remaining survivor of the tribe.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for survivor is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is survivor a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, survivor is tagged as noun.
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