survivant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French survivant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈvʌɪvənt/

Adjective

survivant (comparative more survivant, superlative most survivant)

1. (rare) Surviving.
   • 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance [...] With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book III (Casualties: 1925), page 145:

     But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

French

Noun

survivant m (plural survivants, feminine survivante)

1. survivor

Participle

survivant

1. present participle of survivre

Adjective

survivant (feminine survivante, masculine plural survivants, feminine plural survivantes)

1. surviving

Further reading

• “survivant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.