What does survive mean?
Definitions for survive
sərˈvaɪvsur·vive
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word survive.
Princeton's WordNet
survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out(verb)
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?"
survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it(verb)
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
"He survived the cancer against all odds"
exist, survive, live, subsist(verb)
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"
outlive, outlast, survive(verb)
live longer than
"She outlived her husband by many years"
Wiktionary
survive(Verb)
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.
survive(Verb)
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.
survive(Verb)
To live longer than, to outlive.
Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.
survive(Verb)
To live past a life-threatening event.
He did not survive the accident.
Etymology: From survivre, survivre, from supervivere, from super + vivere, akin to vita; see vivid. Compare devive, revive.
Webster Dictionary
Survive(verb)
to live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event
Etymology: [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]
Survive(verb)
to remain alive; to continue to live
Etymology: [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.]
Freebase
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 Dictionary
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.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2929
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2852
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'survive' in Verbs Frequency: #292
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of survive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of survive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of survive in a Sentence
If you don't understand why you're a Light, you won't survive when it gets the Dark".
Survive these three months, and you'll have a good market and pool of talent.
John Giedraitis called the experts in, pretty much all of them that were familiar with the way that this compound works on trees said that this is a dead tree, that it will not survive.
Manufacturing, airplanes, train stations, department stores, sports stores -- theyre spreading it at a much quicker pace than I am, i just dont see it here. Were doing everything we can to try and sanitize and survive.
They all have a very strong sense of fatalism, young people’s lives don’t last long when they’re surrounded by organized crime, so for these young women the only option is to fight. If they do it wisely, they can survive a lot longer than their male counterparts.
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- перажываць, перажыцьBelarusian
- sobreviureCatalan, Valencian
- přežít, přežívatCzech
- overleveDanish
- überlebenGerman
- επιζώ, γλιτώνω, επιβιώνωGreek
- postviviEsperanto
- sobrevivirSpanish
- selviytyä, jäädä henkiin, jäädä eloonFinnish
- survivreFrench
- tar slán, tarIrish
- sobrevivirGalician
- जीवित रहने केHindi
- túlél, életben marad, tovább élHungarian
- superviverInterlingua
- sopravvivereItalian
- 生き抜く, 生き残る, 生き残りますJapanese
- 살아남 다Korean
- supersum, vivo, vitam supero, superstitem sum, supersto, supestitem sum, reliquus sumLatin
- overleveNorwegian
- overlevenDutch
- overleve, leve lenger ennNorwegian
- przeżyć, przeżywaćPolish
- sobreviverPortuguese
- supraviețuiRomanian
- пережить, переживать, остаться в живых, выживать, выжить, оставаться в живыхRussian
- preživeti, опстати, opstati, преживетиSerbo-Croatian
- prežívať, prežiťSlovak
- preživeti, obstatiSlovene
- överlevaSwedish
- hayatta kalmakTurkish
- переживати, пережитиUkrainian
- زندہ رہناUrdu
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