Survivor
a television programme in which people compete with each other to try to win a very large prize of money. They are sent to a place where there are no other people, and where they are given special jobs to do. Each week the people there vote on who will leave the competition. This programme has been very popular in the US since 2000, and it has been done again several times in several countries. Britain and Australia tried doing similar programmes, but they were not successful and the programme is no longer broadcast in those two countries.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

sur‧vi‧vor AC /səˈvaɪvə $ sərˈvaɪvər/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: survival, survivor; verb: survive; adjective: surviving]

1. someone who continues to live after an accident, war, or illness
survivor of
Emergency help is needed for survivors of the earthquake.
She was the sole survivor (=only survivor) of the massacre.

2. someone who manages to live normally in spite of many problems:
Don’t worry about Kurt; he’s a survivor.

3. someone who continues to live after other members of their family have died:
She was the last survivor of the family.

4. a company that continues to be successful in spite of many problems:
The company hopes to be one of the survivors of this recession.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

survivor
noun
ADJ. great Like all great survivors, she has a ruthless streak.
the last, the only, a rare, the sole This grand park is a rare survivor from the eighteenth century.
bomb, crash
VERB + SURVIVOR find, pick up, rescue The navy helped pick up the survivors.
look/search for The emergency services searched all night for crash survivors.
PREP. ~ from a survivor from the Titanic

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