survivor

English

Alternative forms

• surviver (dated)
• survivour (obsolete)

Etymology

survive +‎ -or

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɚˈvaɪvɚ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

survivor (plural survivors)

1. One who survives, especially one who survives a traumatic experience.

   From this moment on, I choose to live not as a victim, but as a survivor.

   • 1984 August 18, Pam Mitchell, “We Must Not Silence Our Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 9:

     Believing that requires trust, and trust is understandably a tough issue for those of us who are survivors.

2. (figuratively) A person who is able to endure hardship.

   Synonyms: trooper, tough cookie

3. One who knew a specific decedent.

   She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.

Synonyms

• overliver (obsolete)

Derived terms

• adult survivor
• designated survivor
• last survivor
• nonsurvivor
• non-survivor
• sole survivor
• surthriver
• surthrivor
• survivor bias
• survivor guilt
• survivorship
• survivor syndrome

 

Translations

one who survives

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: оцеля́л (bg) m (oceljál)
• Catalan: supervivent (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幸存者 (zh) (xìngcúnzhě)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: overlevende (nl) c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: selviytyjä (fi), selviytynyt (fi)
• French: survivant (fr) m, survivante (fr) f, rescapé (fr) m, rescapée (fr) f
• Galician: supervivente m or f, sobrevivente m or f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Überlebender (de) m, Überlebende (de) f
• Greek: επιζών (el) m (epizón), επιβιωθητής m (epiviothitís)
• Hindi: उत्तरजीवी (uttarjīvī)
• Hungarian: túlélő (hu)
• Indonesian: penyintas (id)
• Italian: superstite (it) m or f
• Japanese: 生存者 (ja) (せいぞんしゃ, sēzonsha), 生き残り (いきのこり, ikinokori)
• Korean: 생존자(生存者) (ko) (saengjonja)
• Latin: superstes m or f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: прежи́веан m (prežívean), преживе́аник m (preživéanik)
• Maori: makorea, mokorea, toiora, mōrehurehu, mōrehu, pūtoetoe (Refers to a person from an older generation), tūora
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overlever m

• Old English: alibbend m
• Persian: بازمانده (fa) (bâzmânde)
• Polish: ocalały m, ocalała f
• Portuguese: sobrevivente (pt)
• Romanian: supraviețuitor (ro) m
• Russian: вы́живший (ru) (výživšij), оста́вшийся в живы́х (ostávšijsja v živýx), уцеле́вший (ru) (ucelévšij)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-tàrrsainn m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: preživeli m, preživjeli (sh) m

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: sobreviviente (es) m or f (Latin America), superviviente (es) m or f (Spain)
• Swahili: nusura (sw)
• Swedish: överlevare (sv) c, överlevande (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: уцілі́вший m (ucilívšyj), той, хто ви́жив (toj, xto výžyv), той, хто лиши́вся живи́м (toj, xto lyšývsja žyvým)
• Vietnamese: người sống sót

person who is able to endure hardship

• Dutch: overlever (nl) c
• Finnish: selviytyjä (fi)
• German: Überlebenskünstler (de) m, harter Knochen m

one who knew a specific decedent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: nabestaande (nl) c
• Finnish: jälkeenjäänyt (fi)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: по́знаник m (póznanik)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: знако́мый (ru) (znakómyj) умершего (ru) (umerševo)
• Serbo-Croatian: nadživjeli (sh) m, nadživeli m
• Swedish: efterlevande (sv) c