Meaning of SURVIVAL
| Pronunciation: | | sur'vIvul
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- [n] a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- [n] a state of surviving; remaining alive
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| | Synonyms: | | endurance, natural selection, selection, survival of the fittest |
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| | See Also: | | action, activity, aliveness, animation, life, living, natural action, natural process, subsistence | |
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| | Definition: | |  Survival
Translated into English for the first time, this book is a personal story of a teenage boy in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Israel Rosengarten writes with no historical pretension beyond the insight his own experience provides about everyday life and the horrors of the camps. His memoir begins with his deportation in 1942 to the Belgium concentration camp of Breendonk at the age of sixteen and follows his movements through a series of camps until 1945. The book concludes with the Auschwitz death march and the author`s return to Belgium, only to discover that he was the lone survivor of a family of seven. Rosengarten survived his 1,000 days of incarceration through incredible coincidences, miracles, and by his fierce struggle to emerge from this atrocious nightmare. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \Sur*viv"al\, n. [From {Survive}.]
1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the
existence of, another person, thing, or event; an
outliving.
2. (Arh[ae]ol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief,
remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often
unknown, or imperfectly known.
The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the
study of manners and customs. --Tylor.
{Survival of the fittest}. (Biol.) See {Natural selection},
under {Natural}.
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