From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. --Shak.
2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. --Blackstone.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital" [syn: {subsister}]
2: one who outlives another; "he left his farm to his survivors"
3: an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"
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