survival
Use Survival in a sentence
vəl noun
1.
the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
2.
a person or thing that survives or endures, especially an ancient custom, observance, belief, or the like.
3.
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) the persistence of a cultural trait, practice, or the like long after it has lost its original meaning or usefulness.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or for use in surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances: survival techniques.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that survives, such as a custom |
| 2. | a. the act or fact of surviving or condition of having survived |
| b. (as modifier): survival kit | |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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survival
in cultural anthropology, a cultural phenomenon that originates under one set of conditions and persists in a period when those conditions no longer obtain. The term was first employed by the British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in his Primitive Culture (1871). Tylor believed that seemingly irrational customs and beliefs, such as peasant superstitions, were vestiges of earlier rational practices. He distinguished between continuing customs that maintained their function or meaning and those that had lost their utility and were further thought to be poorly integrated with the rest of culture. The latter he termed survivals.
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Example sentences
In fact, not being surprised is a survival strategy.
Water, essential to the survival of this ecosystem, once flowed south from the lake unhindered.
If you're a student, they make a vital addition to your campus survival kit.
The spirit bears are able to fatten up faster for winter, which translates to better survival.
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