say it: sur-VAHY-vuh-list
survivalist is a noun meaning "someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation". It carries one recorded sense.
someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for survivalist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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