'Surviving' definitions:
Definition of 'surviving'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" [syn: surviving, living]
Definition of 'Surviving'
From: GCIDE
- Surviving \Sur*viv"ing\, a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surviving'
From: GCIDE
- Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Survived; p. pr. & vb. n. Surviving.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals.] To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever. --Shak. [1913 Webster]