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survivor

sur·vi·vor

survivor

 
 
pronunciation:
sr vaI vr
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: someone or something that survives.
 
definition 2: in law, the one person of two or more with a joint interest who outlives the others.
Word Combinations  About this feature
adjective + (n.)survivor adult, battered, dazed, fellow, hardy, heart-attack, immediate, injured, known, lone, long-term, remaining, snap, sole, stunned, ultimate, wounded
verb + (n.)survivor bomb, counsel, die, evacuate, interview, rescue, search
(n.)survivor + verb abuse, cling, flee, include, perish
noun + (n.)survivor Help apprentice, assault, breast, burn, camp, cancer, clinician, concentration, descendant, divorce, earthquake, episode, flood, handful, hurricane, incest, memoir, millionaire, outlook, polio, prostate, quake, rape, reparation, rescuer, reunion, riot, search, shooting, stroke, testimony, trauma, tsunami, victim  [See all][See only the most frequent]
Word Parts  About this feature
The word survivor contains the following parts:
-er, -or, -ar2 Latin noun-forming suffix that means a person or thing that does
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The suffix group -er , -or , -ar2 turns verbs into agent nouns.
synonyms:
-ist, -ite2, -ator, -an, -ian, -ean