- a person who continues to live, especially despite being nearly killed or experiencing great danger or difficulty
- the sole/only survivor of the massacre
- The plane crashed in an area of dense jungle. There were no survivors.
- There are only a few survivors from the original team (= members who remain in it while others have been replaced).
- She'll cope. She's one of life's great survivors (= somebody who deals very well with difficult situations).
- A movie has been made about the last remaining survivor of the tribe.
Extra Examples- The bomb blast left no survivors.
- The emergency services searched all night for crash survivors.
- The navy helped pick up the survivors.
- a survivor from the Titanic
- the recovery process for breast cancer survivors
- She is wrestling with survivor guilt (= feeling guilty that she survived when other people did not).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- the last
- the only
- a rare
- …
- be
- find
- pick up
- …
- guilt
- survivor from
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