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单词 survivor
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survivorn.

Brit. /səˈvʌɪvə/, U.S. /sərˈvaɪvər/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s -our.
Etymology: < survive v. + -or suffix.
One who (or that which) survives.
1. A person, animal, or plant that outlives another or others; one remaining alive after another's death, or after some disaster in which others perish.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor
overlivera1425
superviver1523
supervivanta1575
outliver1580
remnant1597
relicts1598
surviver1604
survivor1624
survivoressa1711
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > one who escapes > the survivor(s) of a calamity
survivor1624
outdurer1829
1624 J. Donne Deuotions ii. 29 As though that one were the suruiuour of all the sonnes of men, to whom God had giuen the world.
1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 59 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I That he was at Rome either in the joynt Reign of the two Vespatians, or at least in that of the survivour Titus.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 361 I am now sorry that I counted not the plants,..I should then have known what proportion the deceased bore to the survivors.
a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 409 Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all That once liv'd here.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xiv. 163 My dogs..had perished; there were only six survivors of the whole pack.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §6. 518 Of the band of patriots..he [Pym] was the sole survivor.
figurative.1859 Sporting Mag. Dec. 393 In the last half-hour there were only six [hunting men] up, over a very severe bit of country; Jack Morgan [the huntsman]..one of the survivors.
2. spec. in Law. One of two or more designated persons, esp. joint-tenants or other persons having a joint interest, who outlives the other or others; a longer or the longest liver.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor > in legal terms
survivor1503
longer liver1522
longest liver1662
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 25 §1 As yf the seid persones..hade be jointly named with the seid Survivours.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §103 A Within one yeare next after the decease of the suruiuor of them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 18 The fall of either Makes the Suruiuor heyre of all. View more context for this quotation
1759 Irish Act 33 Geo. II c. 4 §17 Any two of them, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs of such survivor, may sell..any part of the estate.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xii. 183 The entire tenancy upon the decease of any of them remains to the survivors, and at length to the last survivor.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 434 A. devised lands to B. and C., and the survivor of them.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 326 As the annuitants dropped off, their annuities were to be divided among the survivors, till the number of survivors was reduced to seven.
3. colloquial. One who has the knack of surviving afflictions unscathed.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > one who escapes > the survivor(s) of a calamity > one who has the knack of surviving unscathed
survivalist1922
survivor1971
1971 P. D. James Shroud for Nightingale ix. 295 She would be earning a good living somewhere... The Mary Taylors of the world were natural survivors.
1978 J. Anderson Angel of Death xiv. 167 You're a survivor, Paul. People like you always come through.

Compounds

C1. attributive or appositive. Surviving. rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [adjective]
unslowc1000
unslaina1325
unmortificatea1475
unkilled1546
survivanta1575
unmurdered1586
relict1587
surviving1594
survivor1602
superstitea1623
unmassacreda1627
to the fore1695
unslaughtered1719
unbutchered1835
unassassinated1842
unimmolated1855
unmartyred1908
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 371 Edward yongest, but Suruiuor Sonne of the aforesaid Egelred.
C2. Special combinations.
survivor syndrome n. the (frequently delayed) symptoms, such as disintegration of personality, nightmares, tension, and guilt, which are classed as a syndrome and can afflict someone who has survived a dehumanizing and degrading experience of terror.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > shell-shock, etc.
shell shock1915
combat fatigue1943
bomb-happiness1944
survivor syndrome1968
1968 W. G. Niederland in H. Krystal Massive Psychic Trauma iv. 63 Only in this way can we understand, in our appraisal of these people, the mental condition from which they suffer today: this survivor syndrome which I have described as a clinical entity.
1979 B. Bettelheim Surviving 29 Unable to embark on the strenuous and hazardous task of integrating their personalities, such survivors suffer from a psychiatric disorder which has been named the concentration camp survivor syndrome.

Derivatives

surˈvivoress n. (also sur'vivress) a female survivor.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor
overlivera1425
superviver1523
supervivanta1575
outliver1580
remnant1597
relicts1598
surviver1604
survivor1624
survivoressa1711
a1711 T. Ken Sion iii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 414 The Survivress in soft mournful Tones The Death of Sister Philomel bemoans.

Draft additions September 2020

survivor guilt n. (also survivor's guilt) a feeling of guilt experienced by someone who has survived an event which another or others did not, often associated with a sense of having been partly responsible for what happened; cf. survivor syndrome n.Recorded earliest as a modifier.
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1952 National Jewish Post (Indiana ed.) 9 May There are a few references to his survivor-guilt feelings and to his sensitiveness as a Jew.
2014 H. Graham Hexed 183 What you're all feeling is survivor's guilt. Melissa's death was a tragedy, but whoever killed her is guilty—and not any of you.

Draft additions December 2021

A person who has experienced a traumatic event or past abuse, esp. of a sexual or psychological nature.Often as the second element in compounds denoting someone who has survived the specified situation or event, as in domestic abuse survivor, rape survivor, etc.In early use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > victimization > one who suffers
victim1781
survivor1939
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > [noun] > one who is ill-treated
victim1781
survivor1939
fuckee1973
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > person cruelly treated
victim1660
survivor1939
1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 321 I should have saluted him as a survivor of all the vile tortures the white men have inflicted on the black.
1975 Los Angeles Free Press 5 Sept. 6/1 Welcome all survivors of rape, child molestation, welfare lines, botched abortions, unemployment and typing pools.
1994 S. Lewis Dealing with Rape (2005) iv. 54 Efforts are being made..to re-educate police and other officials in the treatment and handling of rape survivors.
2021 Independent (Nexis) 24 May 14 Many domestic abuse survivors are unable to afford..treatment due to fleeing their abuser with just the ‘clothes on their back’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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