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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Survival \Sur*viv"al\, noun [From {Survive}.]
1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
2. (Arh[ae]ol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.
The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the study of manners and customs. --Tylor.
{Survival of the fittest}. (Biol.) See {Natural selection}, under {Natural}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
survival
noun
1: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {endurance}]
2: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment [syn: {survival of the fittest}, {natural selection}, {selection}]
3: something that survives
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "survival": abidingness, afterglow, afterimage, age, ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends, cave painting, chaff, constancy, continuance, debris, defeat of time, defiance of time, detritus, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duration, end, endurance, eolith, fag end, filings, fossil, holdover, husks, lastingness, leavings, leftovers, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintenance, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, paleolith, parings, perdurability, perennation, permanence, perpetuity, persistence, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, rags, refuse, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, stability, standing, steadfastness, straw, stubble, stump, survivance, sweepings, trace, vestige, waste
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