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sur·viv·al

 (sər-vī′vəl)
n.
1.
a. The act or process of surviving.
b. The fact of having survived.
2. Something, such as an ancient custom or belief, that has survived.
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survival

(səˈvaɪvəl)
n
1. a person or thing that survives, such as a custom
2.
a. the act or fact of surviving or condition of having survived
b. (as modifier): survival kit.
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sur•viv•al

(sərˈvaɪ vəl)

n.
1. the act or fact of surviving.
2. a person or thing that survives or endures, esp. an ancient custom, observance, belief, etc.
adj.
3. of or for use in surviving, esp. under adverse or unusual circumstances: survival techniques.
[1590–1600]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.survival - a state of survivingsurvival - a state of surviving; remaining alive
aliveness, animation, living, life - the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
subsistence - a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
2.survival - a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
3.survival - something that survives
custom, usage, usance - accepted or habitual practice
continuance, continuation - the act of continuing an activity without interruption
holdover, hangover - something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century"
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survival

noun staying alive, existence, being alive, viability, life span, holding on to life An animal's sense of smell is crucial to its survival.
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Translations
البَقاء حَيّا، نَجاةبَقَاء
přežití
overlevelse
eloonjäänti
opstanak
túlélés
òaî aî komast af
生存
생존
na prežitieprežitie
preživetje
överlevnad
การอยู่รอด
sự sinh tồn

survival

[səˈvaɪvəl]
A. N
1. (= act) → supervivencia f
the survival of the fittestla ley del más fuerte
2. (= relic) → vestigio m, reliquia f
this practice is a survival from Victorian timesesta costumbre es un vestigio or una reliquia de la época victoriana
B. CPD survival bag Nsaco m de supervivencia
survival course Ncurso m de supervivencia
survival kit Nequipo m de emergencia
survival rate Ntasa f de supervivencia
survival skills NPLtécnicas fpl de supervivencia
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

survival

[sərˈvaɪvəl]
n
(= continued existence) [person, species, plant] → survie f; [institution, company] → survie f; [custom, belief] → survie f
Our chances of survival were small → Nos chances de survie étaient minces.
survival of the fittest → la loi du plus fort
(= relic) → vestige m
modif [instinct, mechanism, chances, rate, skills, strategy] → de surviesurvival course ncours m de surviesurvival kit ntrousse f de surviesurvival mechanism nmécanisme m de survie
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

survival

n
Überleben nt; (of customs, usages)Weiterleben nt; the survival of the fittestdas Überleben der Stärkeren; his survival as prime minister seems unlikelyes ist unwahrscheinlich, dass er sich als Premierminister halten kann; survival bagExpeditionsschlafsack m
(= relic)Überbleibsel nt(of, from aus)
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survival

[səˈvaɪvl] n (act) → sopravvivenza; (relic) → retaggio
the survival of the fittest (Bio) → la selezione naturale
in the business world it's a case of the survival of the fittest → nel mondo degli affari vige la legge della giungla
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

survive

(səˈvaiv) verb
1. to remain alive in spite of (a disaster etc). Few birds managed to survive the bad winter; He didn't survive long after the accident.
2. to live longer than. He died in 1940 but his wife survived him by another twenty years; He is survived by his wife and two sons.
surˈvival noun
the state of surviving. the problem of survival in sub-zero temperatures; (also adjective) survival equipment.
surˈviving adjective
remaining alive. She has no surviving relatives.
surˈvivor noun
a person who survives a disaster etc. There were no survivors of the air crash.
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survival

بَقَاء přežití overlevelse Überleben επιβίωση supervivencia eloonjäänti survie opstanak sopravvivenza 生存 생존 overleving overlevelse przetrwanie sobrevivência выживание överlevnad การอยู่รอด yaşam kavgası sự sinh tồn 幸存
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sur·viv·al

n. supervivencia.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

survival

n supervivencia
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!
The condition belongs to the geologic age--the great birth and growth of the world, when natural forces ran riot, when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival. That such a time existed, we have evidences in geology, but there only; we can never expect proofs such as this age demands.
Let your sorrow be love to the Superman: thus will ye justify your own survival!
The learned professor assumes that while a long-continued war had strengthened rather than weakened the instinct of paternal devotion, it had also dulled other humanitarian instincts, and raised to the first magnitude the law of the survival of the fittest, with the result that when the exodus took place the strong, the intelligent, and the cunning, together with their offspring, crossed the waters of the Channel or the North Sea to the continent, leaving in unhappy England only the helpless inmates of asylums for the feebleminded and insane.
Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England.
It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms."
Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure.
Man's survival does not hinge so greatly upon the perfection of his senses.
By some henidical process - henidical, by the way is a favorite word of mine which nobody understands - by some henidical process you persuade yourself that you believe in the competitive system and the survival of the strong, and at the same time you indorse with might and main all sorts of measures to shear the strength from the strong."
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
In the clash of arms, in the battle for survival, amid hunger and death and danger, in the face of God as manifested in the display of Nature's most terrific forces, is born all that is finest and best in the human heart and mind."
As a general thing I was irritated by this survival of medieval manners, though as I liked the old I suppose I ought to have liked it; but I was so determined to be genial that I took my false card out of my pocket and held it up to her, smiling as if it were a magic token.

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