survivals
- 1Plural of survival.
Folklorists often treat these rituals as survivals of pre-Christian belief.
Linguists listed the dialect's many survivals of older grammar.
Note
This is a regular plural, and it is most at home where survival can be counted. Folklore gives it its most natural use: a custom or belief that outlives its forgotten reason is one survival, and a set of them are survivals of an earlier age. Where survival means staying alive, the plural counts outcomes, as in survivals among patients, while uncountable survival names the fact itself.
survivals is a form of survival
survival, noun: The fact of continuing to live or exist, especially after danger, illness, or great difficulty. Full entry
- Forms
- survivalsurvivals plural
- Spelling
- survival → survivals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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