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survival en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /səˈvaɪ.vəl/ (UK)
  • /səˈvʌɪ.vəl/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti Proto-Italic *gʷīwō Latin vīvō Latin supervīvereder. English survive Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English survival From survive + -al.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
    • His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.
  2. (as a modifier, countable, uncountable) Of, relating to or aiding survival.
    • persecution survival plan
    • When I am not playing pinball or working at my survival job, I am usually writing. 1978 April 15, Pat M. Kuras, “Why's a Nice Dyke Like Me Writing For A Paper Like This?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
    • His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
    • "Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival." 2013, Alan Stubbs, How Football Saved My Life, page 139:
    • […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […] 2000, Dan Goldstein, The Rough Guide to English Football: A Fans' Handbook 2000-2001:
  4. (countable, uncountable) A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.
    • The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns — a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms — days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the First: The Maiden, chapter 2:
    • Another survival of marriage by capture is discovered among the Ceylonese, where it is common at royal marriages for the king and queen to throw perfumed balls and squirt scented water at each other. 1894, James William Black, “Savagery and survivals”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 45, page 391:
    • Thus, if some old rhyme or saying has in one place a solemn import in philosophy or religion, while elsewhere it lies at the level of the nursery, there is some ground for treating the serious version as the more original, and the playful one as its mere lingering survival. 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom^([IA]), Volume 1, chapter 3: "Survival in culture", page 78:

Forms

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Deriveds

survival instinct · survival sex · survival statute · survival horror · survival mode · survival game · survival kit · antisurvival · squipper · survival suit · survival bias · urban survival syndrome · survival time · neurosurvival · median survival time · survival gun · survival value · survival of the fittest · survival rifle · survival analysis · cryosurvival · survival skill · survivalism · survivalistic · survival knife · prosurvival · survival rate · survival weapon · nonsurvival · mean survival time · Parfitian survival · self-survival · survivalist · survival arms · survival bag

Translations (65)

de Relikt (persistent custom or belief) · wa sorvicaedje (continued existence or life) · nl overleving (continued existence or life) · hu túlélés (continued existence or life) · uk пережи́ток (persistent custom or belief) · id tahan hidup (continued existence or life) · da overlevelse (continued existence or life) · no overlevelse (continued existence or life) · el επιβίωση (continued existence or life) · oc subrevida (continued existence or life) · ja 残存 (persistent custom or belief) · be выжыва́нне (continued existence or life) · ca supervivència (continued existence or life) · lij sopravivénsa (continued existence or life) · es pervivencia (continued existence or life) · mk опстанок (continued existence or life) · de Überrest (persistent custom or belief) · es supervivencia (continued existence or life) · pl przetrwanie (continued existence or life) · eo transvivo (continued existence or life) · yi איבערלעבונג (continued existence or life) · nl overleven (continued existence or life) · sw kusalimika (continued existence or life) · lt išlikimas (continued existence or life) · pt sobrevivência (continued existence or life) · tl lighay (continued existence or life) · yi קיום (continued existence or life) · ms ikhtiar hidup (continued existence or life) · sw kuishi (continued existence or life) · be перажы́так (persistent custom or belief) · tr hayatta kalma (continued existence or life) · gl supervivencia (continued existence or life) · fi eloonjääminen (continued existence or life) · lv izdzīvošana (continued existence or life) · ga maireachtáil (continued existence or life) · de Überlebsel (persistent custom or belief) · fi selviytyminen (continued existence or life) · ja 生存 (continued existence or life) · ko 생존 (continued existence or life) · de Überleben (continued existence or life) · ro supraviețuire (continued existence or life) · be выжыва́ньне (continued existence or life) · ru выжива́ние (continued existence or life) · uk вижива́ння (continued existence or life) · sv överlevnad (continued existence or life) · pl przeżycie (continued existence or life) · ms peninggalan (persistent custom or belief) · ru пережи́ток (persistent custom or belief) · bg отживе́лица (persistent custom or belief) · fur sorevivence (continued existence or life) · bg оцеляване (continued existence or life) · es sobrevivencia (continued existence or life) · de Überbleibsel (persistent custom or belief) · km ការរស់រានមានជីវិត (continued existence or life) · id kesintasan (continued existence or life) · fr survie (continued existence or life) · uk пере́житок (persistent custom or belief) · ja 遺物 (persistent custom or belief) · cs přežití (continued existence or life) · sk prežitie (continued existence or life) · sq mbijetesë (continued existence or life) · it sopravvivenza (continued existence or life) · ja サバイバル (continued existence or life) · bg преживя́ване (continued existence or life) · cmn 生存 (continued existence or life)