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English Dictionary: Survivor by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survivor
n
  1. one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital"
    Synonym(s): survivor, 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"
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.
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