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Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

624. Survival (See also Endurance.)

Alive story of the survivors of plane crash in the Andes. [Am. Lit.: Alive ]
Comanche horse; sole survivor of Little Big Horn massacre (1876). [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 126]
Crusoe, Robinson only survivor of shipwreck. [Br. Lit.: Robin-son Crusoe ]
Deucalion survives flood that destroys human race. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 80]
Donner Party survivors of group of emigrants to California (1846–1847). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 783–784]
Lot allowed by God to escape the conflagration of Sodom and Gomorrah. [O.T.: Genesis 13:1–12]
Mellitias, St. of “Forty Martyrs,” the only one to survive icy ordeal. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 133–134]
Noah chosen by God to escape the deluge. [O.T.: Genesis 5–9]
Pilgrim, Billy survives the fire-bombing of Dresden and is the only passenger to survive a domestic air-crash. [Am. Lit.: Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five ]
Robinsons shipwrecked family learns to cope with nature on a desert island. [Children’s Lit.: Swiss Family Robinson ]

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survival

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

sur·viv·al / sərˈvīvəl/ • n. the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances: the animal's chances of survival were pretty low fig. he was fighting for his political survival. ∎ an object or practice that has continued to exist from an earlier time: his shorts were a survival from his army days. PHRASES: survival of the fittest Biol. the continued existence of organisms that are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution. Compare with natural selection.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

survival •Ethel • lethal • brothel • betrothal •Cavell, cavil, gavel, gravel, ravel, travel •Havel, larval, marvel, Marvell, rondavel •bedevil, bevel, devil, dishevel, kevel, level, revel, split-level •daredevil • she-devil • eye level •naval, navel •coeval, evil, Khedival, medieval, primeval, retrieval, shrieval, upheaval •civil, drivel, shrivel, snivel, swivel •carnival • Percival • perspectival •festival • aestival (US estival) •adjectival, arrival, deprival, genitival, imperatival, infinitival, outrival, relatival, revival, rival, substantival, survival •archival •grovel, hovel, novel •oval •approval, removal •Lovell, shovel •interval • serval • narwhal •coequal, equal, prequel, sequel •bilingual, lingual, monolingual, multilingual •rorqual • Hywel •Daniel, spaniel

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