Synonyms for survivor
sərˈvaɪ vərsur·vivor

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1. survivor, subsisternoun

   one who lives through affliction

   "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital"

   Synonyms:
   subsister

2. survivornoun

   one who outlives another

   "he left his farm to his survivors"

   Synonyms:
   subsister

3. survivornoun

   an animal that survives in spite of adversity

   "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"

   Synonyms:
   subsister

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Person
   • Unfortunate

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1. List of paraphrases for "survivor":

   survivors, naji, survival, abductee, surviving, reversion, survivorship

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1. David Newstat:

   I'm trying to go to the store, to Target, and I'm coming back home, and I'm being berated by Nazis, my grandfather was a survivor. Other members of my family were survivors of the Holocaust and migrated to the U.S. after. It's very sad to see people like this can be so ignorant and can have so much hatred built up in their hearts.

2. Julia Glade Bender:

   So all of those healthy lifestyle ideas that we try to teach everybody become of paramount importance to a cancer survivor, so the basics; good nutrition, exercise, don’t smoke, avoid the sun and do those screening procedures that we know are very important to adults like mammograms and pap smears.

3. Cat Ellington:

   In all of my years, even since the time that I was old enough to understand, I ain’t ever seen a failed hustler, or a survivor begging bread. And every man and woman on this Earth with a success story to tell can be counted among such.

4. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   The reason I say this and the reason I'm getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it's not a big deal, that we should forget what's happened, or even telling us to apologize. These are the same tactics of abusers. And, um, I'm a survivor of sexual assault, and I haven't told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. And so, whether you had a negligent or a neglectful parent, and -- or whether you had someone who was verbally abusive to you, whether you are a survivor of abuse, whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large -- these episodes can compound on one another.

5. Charles Armstrong:

   This is a big deal. He was a survivor, he was from Kim Jong Un's father's regime. He made it through the transition. He was a very high profile military man.