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survivor


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  survivor 
  n  1:  one  who  lives  through  affliction;  "the  survivors  of  the  fire 
  were  taken  to  a  hospital" 
  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" 




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