Definitions for SURVIVE
sərˈvaɪvsur·vive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold outverb

   continue to live through hardship or adversity

   "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"

2. survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make itverb

   continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

   "He survived the cancer against all odds"

3. exist, survive, live, subsistverb

   support oneself

   "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

4. outlive, outlast, surviveverb

   live longer than

   "She outlived her husband by many years"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surviveverb

   Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

2. surviveverb

   Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.

3. surviveverb

   To live longer than, to outlive.

4. surviveverb

   To live past a life-threatening event.

   He did not survive the accident.

5. Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Surviveverb

   To outlive.

   I’ll assure her of
   Her widowhood, be it that she survives me,
   In all my lands and leases whatsoever. William Shakespeare.

2. To SURVIVEverb

   Etymology: supervivo, Latin; survivre, Fr.

   1. To live after the death of another.

   Those that survive, let Rome reward with love. William Shakespeare.

   Try pleasure,
   Which when no other enemy survives,
   Still conquers all the conquerors. John Denham.

   2. To live after any thing.

   Now that he is dead, his immortal fame surviveth, and flourisheth in the mouths of all people. Edmund Spenser.

   The love of horses which they had alive,
   And care of chariots after death survive. Dryden.

   The rhapsodies, called the characteristicks, would never have survived the first edition, if they had not discovered so strong a tincture of infidelity. Isaac Watts.

   3. To remain alive.

   No longer now that golden age appears,
   When patriarch-wits surviv’d a thousand years;
   Now length of same, our second life, is lost,
   And bare threescore is all ev’n that can boast;
   Our sons their father’s failing language see,
   And such as Geoffrey Chaucer is, shall John Dryden be. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Survive

   Survival, or the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might kill or destroy it. The concept can be applied to humans and other living things (or, hypothetically, any sentient being), to physical object, and to abstract things such as beliefs or ideas. Living things generally have a self-preservation instinct to survive, while objects intended for use in harsh conditions are designed for survivability.

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1. survive

   Survive generally means to remain living or existing despite certain challenges, adversities, or difficult circumstances. It refers to the ability to endure, sustain, or persist through obstacles or threats in order to continue to exist or function. Survival often involves adapting, making necessary adjustments, and utilizing various means or resources to overcome adversity and maintain one's existence.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Surviveverb

   to live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event

2. Surviveverb

   to remain alive; to continue to live

3. Etymology: [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]

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1. Survive

   Survive is the ninth studio album by Japanese rock band B'z. The album sold 1,040,160 copies in its first week, lower than their last studio album, the album still managed to sell over 1,723,030 copies.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Survive

   sur-vīv′, v.t. to live beyond: to outlive.—v.i. to remain alive.—n. Survī′val, a surviving or living after: any custom or belief surviving in folklore from a more or less savage earlier state of society, long after the philosophy or rationale of it is forgotten.—p.adj. Survī′ving, continuing alive: outliving.—ns. Survī′vor, one who survives or lives after another; Survī′vorship.—Survival of the fittest, the preservation of favourable variations, attended with the destruction of injurious ones, such being the result of Natural Selection (see Natural). [Fr.,—L. super, beyond, vivĕre, to live.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'SURVIVE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2929

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'SURVIVE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2852

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'SURVIVE' in Verbs Frequency: #292

Anagrams for SURVIVE »

1. viveurs

How to pronounce SURVIVE?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of SURVIVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of SURVIVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of SURVIVE in a Sentence

1. President Mike Manley:

   We want to ensure a thriving industry. This will require some consolidation, people are looking more rationally at regional requirements and regional scale. In terms of number of carmakers that survive, your guess is as good as mine.

2. Hyman Rickover:

   A free society can survive only with men and women of integrity. Mediocrity can destroy us just as surely as perils far more famous. In a society that is willing to accept mediocrity, the opportunity for failure is boundless.

3. Thierry Smith:

   This fossil bat is tiny, it is only made up of tiny isolated teeth, fragments of the jaw and some small bones, some species survive a few thousand years or one or two million years but not like here 33 million years.

4. John Denham:

   The English-centric idea of union was fostered as part of the imperial Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the truth is that old idea of the union lost its sense of purpose decades ago. And in that time, the other parts of the union asserted their identity( or in Northern Ireland, identities). If government really wants the union to survive, it has to be a partnership between all the nations.

5. Sunshine Rodriguez:

   This was a time bomb that was set up by the previous administration, they know that we dont have the means to survive more than three months without payment.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=SURVIVE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Survive
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=SURVIVE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survive
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SURVIVE
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=SURVIVE
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=SURVIVE