survivor

English

Alternative forms

surviver (dated)
survivour (obsolete)

Etymology

survive +‎ -or

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /sɚˈvaɪvɚ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

survivor (plural survivors)

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.
(figuratively) A person who is able to endure hardship.
Synonyms: trooper, tough cookie
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

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

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