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surviver

surviver is the obsolete spelling of survivor.

Meaning of survivor

Noun

survivor (plural survivors)

  1. 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.
  2. (figuratively) A person who is able to endure hardship.
    • I'm a survivor. We're a dying breed.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)
  3. One who knew a specific decedent.
    • She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.

Forms of surviver

pluralsurvivers

Origin of surviver

From survive + -er.

Questions about surviver

What is surviver the obsolete spelling of?
Surviver is the obsolete spelling of survivor.

Words near surviver in the dictionary

  1. survive
  2. survive to tell the tale
  3. survived
  4. survivedst
  5. survivency
  6. surviver
  7. survivers
  8. survives
  9. survivest
  10. surviveth
  11. survivin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surviver (page history and authors); survivor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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