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Definition of survival:
Synonyms:
constancy, choice, eternity, remnant, remainder, relic, extract, stability, vestige, excerption, excerpt, continuity, natural selection, consistency, selection, permanence, endurance, survival of the fittest, option, pick, longevity, preservation.
- continuation (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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Survival for the individual as well as for the family came under fresh stress in urban slum situations.
- "The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America", Norman Coombs. -
The organism, as a result of the great facts of heredity and of the survival of the fittest, is necessarily a system which gathers experience with successive generations; and the principal lesson ever being impressed upon it by external events is economy.
- "The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays", J. (John) Joly. -
A survival of your grandmother!
- "The Bars of Iron", Ethel May Dell.