From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From survive + -or.
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.
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
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person who is able to endure hardship
one who knew a specific decedent
