survivor
/sɚˈvaɪvɚ/ noun B1- 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.
- A person who is able to endure hardship.
- One who knew a specific decedent. · She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.
Plural survivors
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Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.”
“My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.”
“It does,” replied the abbé; “with the addition of an equal division of that part intended for the elder Dantès, which I believe myself at liberty to divide equally with the four survivors.”
de Boville, “but not for the survivor; on the contrary, this Dantès saw a means of accelerating his escape.
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