survivant

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UK/səˈvʌɪvənt/

adjective

Surviving.

OriginMiddle French survivant →
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Meanings

adjectivesurvivant (comparative more survivant, superlative most survivant)

comparative more survivant · superlative most survivant

  1. rareSurviving.

    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

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchsurvivant
  2. Middle Frenchsurvivant
  3. Englishsurvivant

Borrowed from Middle French survivant.

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APA

survivant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/survivant

MLA

“survivant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/survivant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “survivant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/survivant.

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