survivor

English

Alternative forms

• survivour (obsolete)

Noun

survivor (plural survivors)

1. One who survives; one who endures through disaster or hardship.
2. 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

• (person able to endure hardship): trooper, tough cookie

Translations

one who survives

• Catalan: supervivent (ca) m and f
• Finnish: selviytyjä (fi)
• French: survivant (fr) m, survivante (fr) f, rescapé (fr) m, rescapée (fr) f
• Galician: supervivente (gl) m and f, sobrevivente (gl) m and f
• German: Überlebender (de) m, Überlebende (de) f
• Greek: επιζών (el) (epizón)
• Hungarian: túlélő (hu)
• Italian: superstite (it) m and f
• Latin: superstes (la) m and f

• Maori: makorea (mi), mokorea (mi)
• Norwegian: overlever (no) m
• Persian: بازمانده (fa) (bâzmândeh)
• Portuguese: sobrevivente (pt)
• Russian: выживший (ru) (vу́živšij), оставшийся в живых (ru) (ostávšijsja v živу́x), уцелевший (ru) (ucelévšij)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-tàrrsainn m and f
• Spanish: sobreviviente (es) m and f (Latin America), superviviente (es) m and f (Spain)
• Swahili: nusura (sw)

One who knew a specific decedent

• Russian: знакомый (ru) (znakomyj) умершего (ru) (umeršego)

• Swedish: efterlevande (sv) c

Derived terms

• sole survivor