survivant
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French survivant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
survivant (comparative more survivant, superlative most survivant)
- (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)
Participle
survivant
Adjective
survivant (feminine survivante, masculine plural survivants, feminine plural survivantes)
Further reading
- “survivant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.