1. A state of surviving; remaining alive
   - endurance 
2. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
   - survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection 
3. Something that survives

Derived forms: survivals

See also: survive

Type of: action, activity, aliveness, animation, continuance, continuation, life, living, natural action, natural process

Encyclopedia: Survival Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Survival, A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

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