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survivant

UK/səˈvʌɪvənt/

survivant adjective: surviving.

Adjective

survivant (comparative more survivant, superlative most survivant)

  1. (rare) Surviving.
    • But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1951, →OCLC, book III (Casualties: 1925), page 145

Forms of survivant

comparativemore survivant
superlativemost survivant

Origin of survivant

Borrowed from Middle French survivant.

Questions about survivant

What does survivant mean?
Survivant means surviving.
What part of speech is survivant?
Survivant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce survivant?
Survivant is pronounced /səˈvʌɪvənt/ (UK).

Words near survivant in the dictionary

  1. survivalists
  2. survivals
  3. survivance
  4. survivances
  5. survivancy
  6. survivant
  7. survive
  8. survive to tell the tale
  9. survived
  10. survivedst
  11. survivency

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