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Definition: Survivor |
SurvivorNoun1. One who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "survivor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Insurance | Benefits customarily are some fraction of the benefits that would be payable to an aged or disabled person. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The word survivor may refer to several articles in Wikipedia:
- In social security, widows, widowers, and similar.
- Survivor (television series)
- Survivor (novel) by Chuck Palahniuk
- Survivor (band)
- Survivor (video game)
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Survivor is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It's a cynical book about a man named Tender Branson who is in the Creedish death cult. In this cult, every member learns how to be a servant for the human race—most of them are butlers and maids—and fear most human pleasures. They await a sign from God to tell them to deliver themselves unto Him, that is, commit suicide. The sign finally comes, and a good ten years later, Tender becomes the last surviving member of the cult. He's thrown into mainstream culture and becomes a personal icon for many people.An excerpt from chapter 25:
- "This one time, the agent asked me where I saw myself in five years. Dead, I said. I see myself dead and rotting. Or ashes, I can see myself burned to ashes. I remember I had a loaded gun in my pocket. Just the two of us were standing in the back of a crowded, dark auditorium.
- 'I see myself dead and in hell.'
- I remember I was planning to kill myself that night. It was the night of my first big public appearance. I told the agent, I figured I'd spend my first thousand years in hell in some entry-level position, but after that I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is going to see enormous growth in market share over the next millennium, and I wanted to ride the crest.
- The agent said that sounded pretty realistic."
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Survivor is a popular reality television program produced by many countries throughout the world. The show consists of contestants isolated in a remote location competing for a million dollar prize.
Premise
The basic premise of the show is that each series starts with sixteen players and on each episode one player is voted off by the other remaining players. Initially, the players are divided into two eight person "tribes" which compete against each other in "challenges" - competitions of endurance, intelligence, teamwork, dexterity, or will power. Each episode has an "immunity challenge" and the tribe that loses this challenge must vote one member of the tribe out. In addition, most episodes have a "reward challenge" and the winning tribe will receive a prize such as additional food or equipment.At some point in the season the remaining players from the two tribes "merge" into a single tribe. From this point, challenges are won on an individual basis. Rewards are given to only one player (who is however often given the option to choose one other player to share the reward with), and only one player wins immunity. This immune player cannot be voted off on that episode, although he or she still has the right to vote against other players.
The voting is done at the end of each episode at the "tribal council". The show's host, Jeff Probst, questions and provokes the players about events that have occurred and their opinions about the other players. The players all then secretly vote, and the player who receives the most votes is out of the competition. The first seven players are off the show, but the next seven remain to form the "jury" which does not directly participate in the show but observes the tribal councils. When the number of players has been reduced to two on the final episode, the jury members have the opportunity to interrogate them and then vote on which of the two is the "sole survivor" and grand prize winner.
The grand prize winner wins one million dollars (in the US version of the series). The players that were voted off win lesser monetary prizes ranging from $2500 for the first player to be voted off to $100,000 for the fifteenth player.
While the show is based on the theme of wilderness survival, the real basis of the show is politics. The survival aspects are difficult enough to discomfort the players, but contestants are of course never truly endangered (only one has ever had to leave in mid-series due to injuries). The real survival skills required are the ability to make deals and form alliances with other players to keep from being voted off. Because of the steadily diminishing number of players and the fact that the players being voted off will in turn choose the ultimate winner, considerable political skills are required.
Concept History
The Survivor concept was conceived by Bob Geldof's Planet 24 television company. It initially failed to attract the attention of any of the major broadcasters in Britain or the United States and was eventually taken up by Swedish television in 1997 as Expedition Robinson (alluding to Robinson Crusoe). The show was a major hit in Sweden, and it is estimated that half of Sweden's population watched the final episode.The initial series was a huge ratings success in the US in 2000. Subsequent US versions have attracted smaller but still substantial audiences. There have also been British and Australian versions of the show in 2002. Both failed in ratings flops, so much so that in Britain, it was a national joke.
Seasons of the American version of the series
The U.S version is produced by Mark Burnett and hosted by Jeff Probst. When the program is broadcast, it airs weekly on CBS.
Survivor IV was not shown in Australia as the network was showing a series of Australian Survivor instead. The latter was not a ratings success, and it is planned to show Survivor V instead of making another Australian series.
- Survivor I was set on the remote island of Palau Tiga in the South China Sea. Richard Hatch was its winner.
- Survivor: The Australian Outback was set in Australia in the Outback (though the location was by Australian standards not particularly remote, nor was it arid).
- Survivor: Africa was set in Kenya.
- Survivor: Marquesas was set on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas.
- Survivor: Thailand was set in Thailand.
- Survivor: The Amazon, was set in the jungless of the Amazon River region of Brazil
- Survivor: Pearl Islands was set in the Pearl Islands off the coast of Panama.
There was a similarly titled series, Survivors, a 1970s series by Terry Nation, set in the then-present day, when most of the world's population were suddenly wiped out by a virulent plague. It followed the fortunes of a few of the "lucky" people who were immune.
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Survivor was a television series. It was the British version of the American reality show Survivor. The show was broadcast by the ITV network. The Grand Prize was £1,000,000.The series was a failure in the ratings and only ran two seasons.
Series 1
The first series was filmed on the island of Palua Tiga in the South China Sea, which was the sight of the first American Survivor series. It was broadcast weekly from May 21, 2001 to July 25, 2001. The host was Mark Austin. The initial tribes were Helang (Eagle) and Ular (Snake).
The players were (in the order they left the show)
The Grand Prize winner, Charlotte Hobrough, won by a 7-0 vote.
- Nick Carter, 38, Manager at a drugs company (Ular)
- Jennifer "JJ" Adams, 37, Personal Assistant (Helang)
- Uzma Bashir, 30, Owner of children's nursery (Helang)
- Sarah Odell, 33, Model (Ular)
- Jayne Meyler, 47, Massage Therapist (Helang)
- Adrian Bauckham, 22, Barrister's clerk (Helang)
- Simon Dunkley, 35, Financial Sales Manager (Helang)
- Andy Fairfield, 41, Long-haul airline pilot (Helang)
- James Stroud, 40, Property Developer (Helang)
- Pete Farrar, 30, Model and actor (Ular)
- Zoe Lyons (Ular)
- Eve Holding, 30, Project manager (Ular)
- Mick Easton, 55, Retired policeman (Ular)
- Richard Owen, 33, Fellow in Clinical Psychology (Ular)
- Jackie Carey, 31, Purchaser in airline industry (Ular)
- Charlotte Hobrough, 24, Detective Constable (Helang)
Series 2
The second series, known as Survivor: Panama, was filmed on Panamanian islands. It was broadcast from March 13, 2002 to May 29, 2002. The host was Mark Nicholas. The initial tribes were North Island and South Island.
There were several changes in the traditional format. The contest started with only twelve players. In the fifth episode, the remaining players were merged and then told there would be no immunity this episode. At the Tribal Council they were then told nobody was being voted off that episode and that a vote by the televison audience would act as a seventh jury member in the final vote.
The players were (in the order they left the show)
The Grand Prize winner, Jonny Gibb, won by a 7-0 vote. The audience vote was 89% in his favor.
- Sarah McCombie, 22, financial trader (South Island)
- Lee Capon, 25, car sales manager (South Island)
- Tayfun Kadioglu, 27, professional Latin-American dancer (North Island)
- Meeta Bose, 34, financial manager (North Island)
- Helen Carney, 22, hotel worker (North Island)
- Alastair Brogan, 34, oil company director (North Island)
- Drew Agger, 27, firefighter (North Island)
- Dave Porter, 55, retired fireman (North Island)
- Bridget Griffiths, 43, shepherdess (South Island)
- John Dalzell, 32, ex-Marine now working in law (South Island)
- Susannah Moffatt, 27, teacher (South Island)
- Jonny Gibb, 30, police detective (South Island)
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Survivor is the title of at least two video games. One is an adventure game released in 1989 by Global Games for ZX Spectrum. Another is an arcade game from Topo Soft, later re-released by US Gold, from 1987 for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC 464 and MSX.
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Synonym: SurvivorSynonym: subsister (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Survivor |
| English words defined with "survivor": full tontine ♦ interrogate ♦ Joint tenancy ♦ Overliver ♦ question ♦ Surviver, Survivorship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "survivor": Survivor benefits ♦ Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, tenancy by the entirety. (references) |
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Screenplays | The only thing you can guess about a broken down old man is that he is a survivor. (The Way of the Gun; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) One because it seems in a few minutes you will officially be the only survivor of this train wreck, and two, because you didn't break one bone, you don't have a scratch on you. (Unbreakable; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) I'm a survivor. Ain't that great (WUSA; writing credit: Robert Stone) And thank you God, for voting off that unholy bitch Gerri from Survivor! (Scary Movie 2; writing credit: Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans) | |
Lyrics | Did you feel guilty cause you’re a survivor (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) But I'm a survivor, plus I'm liver than most (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z) Sole Survivor (Take It Away; performing artist: Paul McCartney) And the last known survivor (Eye Of The Tiger; performing artist: Survivor) | |
Clever | Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Survivor (2001) Sole Survivor (1970) The Seventh Survivor (1941) Vampire Survivor (2002) Erotic Survivor 2 (2002) | |
Song Titles | Burning Heart (performing artist: Survivor) I Can't Hold Back (performing artist: Survivor) Is This Love (performing artist: Survivor) The Search Is Over (performing artist: Survivor) Eye Of The Tiger (performing artist: Survivor) | |
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 | A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting chatting with her mother. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Retired Master Sgt. Disk Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor, reads a memorial plaque engraved on the eternal flame in the Headquarters Pacific Air Forces "Courtyard of Heroes" 59 years after the attack. Fiske was a bugler assigned to a marine detach. |
 | A now uncommon and romantic building type, the Beebe Windmill provided mechanization to the grinding of grain. This rare survivor teaches us about the evolution of industrial technologies and the ingenuity of early American craftsman who fashioned the moving parts out of the most readily available material at hand, wood. HABS and HAER documentation provides information for the care and maintenance of structures for which the original drawings typically do not survive. The formats of HAER documentation for this windmill include a written history, photographs, and measured drawings. The selected drawings and photographs shown here demonstrate how the nformation in each format can supplement the other. The photographs record information as the camera sees it in a one-point perspective. The drawings illustrate the grain mill and clarify how its parts fit together, what dimensions they are, and how they interact to grind the grain. West elevation. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-1). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is inboard of the sunken battleship. Note extensive distortion of West Virginia's lower midships superstructure, caused by torpedoes that exploded below that location. Also note 5"/25 gun, still partially covered with canvas, boat crane swung outboard and empty boat cradles near the smokestacks, and base of radar antenna atop West Virginia's foremast. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Is brought ashore from USS Broome (DD-210) at Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 April 1942. Alcoa Guide had been sunk by gunfire of the German submarine U-123 on 16 April. Broome rescued 27 of her survivors on 19 April. The last survivor of the ship was not picked up until 18 May. Six of Alcoa Guide's crew lost their lives as a result of this attack. Credit: NAVY. |  | Receive commendations from the Secretary of the Navy, in his Navy Department office, shortly after the airship's loss on 4 April 1933. Those present are (from left to right): Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry A. Roosevelt; Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson; Admiral William V. Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations; Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley, senior survivor; Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Richard E. Deal, survivor; and Aviation Metalsmith 2nd Class Moody Erwin, survivor. Erwin, whose left hand is bandaged, is apparently wearing a borrowed uniform, as its insignia is that of a Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Destruction of the packet-ship John Rutledge by an iceburg, Feb. 20, 1856 The only survivor, Thomas W. Nye, of New Bedford [with others in lifeboat]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Curly, sole survivor of Custer massacre--scout for Custer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mukpi, Eskimo girl, youngest survivor of the S.S. Karluk. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Comanche," the only survivor of the Custer Massacre, 1876. History of the horse and regimental orders of the [7]th Cavalry as to the care of "Comanche" as long as he shall live. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | With time and patience, a stroke survivor should be able to regain some, and sometimes all, language and speaking abilities. (references) | |
These include coughing and shortness of breath, with the sensation of, as one survivor put it, a "..tight band around my chest and a pillow over my face" as the lungs fill with fluid. (references) | ||
Economic History | Andorra | Andorra is the last independent survivor of the March states, a number of buffer states created by Charlemagne to keep the Muslim Moors from advancing into Christian France. (references) |
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| "Survivor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Survivor" is used about 366 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 366 | 14,782 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "survivor": shipwreck survivor ♦ survivor curve. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "survivor": camp-survivor. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
survivor | 5,118 | first survivor | 111 |
playboy survivor | 721 | survivor game | 105 |
amazon survivor | 679 | girl survivor | 102 |
survivor suck | 525 | survivor suicide | 100 |
jenna survivor | 429 | abused by network priests survivor those | 98 |
panama survivor | 379 | pic playboy survivor | 95 |
survivor nude | 301 | island pearl survivor | 93 |
survivor cbs | 235 | heidi jenna nude survivor | 88 |
jenna playboy survivor | 213 | lyrics survivor | 86 |
7 survivor | 182 | logo survivor | 78 |
holocaust survivor | 179 | from jenna survivor | 75 |
heidi survivor | 165 | in playboy survivor | 74 |
survivor tv show | 143 | homicide survivor victim | 70 |
6 survivor | 133 | heidi playboy survivor | 70 |
heidi jenna survivor | 132 | american idol suck survivor | 67 |
jenna nude survivor | 127 | cancer survivor | 64 |
soul survivor | 127 | survivor series | 60 |
titanic survivor | 124 | survivor africa | 60 |
heidi jenna playboy survivor | 124 | survivor show | 59 |
survivor thailand | 112 | 8 survivor | 58 |
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| Language | Translations for "survivor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shpëtuar, ai që u mbet gjallë. (various references) | |
Arabic | متبق بعد كارثة, ناجي من خطر, ناج, المتبقي الوحيد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | останал жив човек, оцелял човек (survival). (various references) | |
Chinese | 幸存者 . (various references) | |
Czech | pozùstalý (residuary), kdo přežil. (various references) | |
Danish | efterlevende (surviving dependant), efterladt (surviving dependant). (various references) | |
Dutch | overlevende (surviving dependant), nagelaten betrekking (surviving dependant). (various references) | |
Farsi | شخص زنده , باقیمانده (Fragment, Remainder, Rest), بازمانده (Hinder). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuolinkäyrä (survival curve, survivor curve, survivorship curve), henkiinjäänyt (surviving. survivor), eloonjäämiskäyrä (survival curve, survivor curve, survivorship curve). (various references) | |
French | survivant (surviving). (various references) | |
German | überlebende. (various references) | |
Greek | επιζών (surviving dependant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שאיר, שאר בחיים, צול (rescued, saved). (various references) | |
Hungarian | túlélő, hátramaradott (relict), életben maradott. (various references) | |
Italian | superstite (surviving dependant, the surviving). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遭難者 (sufferer, victim), "還者 , "残者 , "き残り , "存者 , 残存者 (holdover). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうな"しゃ (sufferer, victim), ざ"ぞ"しゃ (holdover), ざ"そ"しゃ (holdover), せいぞ"しゃ, せいざ"しゃ, せいか"しゃ, いきの"り. (various references) | |
Korean | 생존자. (various references) | |
Manx | tanneyder (abider, lingerer), mayrnagh (living). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urvivorsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sobrevivente (extant, survival, surviver). (various references) | |
Romanian | supravieţuitor (surviving). (various references) | |
Russian | уцелевший, оставшийся в живых. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preživeli (living: the living, surviving), naslednik (devisee, heir, heritor, inheritor, legatee, successor). (various references) | |
Spanish | superviviente (left over). (various references) | |
Swedish | efterlevande (dependents, surviving), överlevande person. (various references) | |
Turkish | sağ kalan (surviving), varis (devisee, heir, heiress, heritor, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, successor, varicose vein, varicosis, varicosity, varix), kurtulan, kazazede (castaway, sufferer), hayatta kalan (surviving), geride kalan (fallen astern, straggler, straggly, surviving). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | той, хто лишився живим. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người sống sót. (various references) | |
Welsh | goroeswr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "survivor": survivors, survivorship, survivorships. (additional references) | |
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"Survivor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: survivior, survivour, survivre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "survivor" (pronounced servī"ver) |
| 3 | -ī" v er | driver, diver, Shriver, siver, skiver, stiver. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-r-r-s-u-v-v" | |
-3 letters: orris, virus, visor. | |
-4 letters: ours, sori, sour. | |
-5 letters: ors, our, sir, sou, sri, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-r-r-s-u-v-v" | |
+1 letter: survivors. | |
+2 letters: parvovirus. | |
+4 letters: parvoviruses, survivorship. | |
+5 letters: survivorships. | |
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