surviving

1. 1.

   still in existence

   “the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil”

   “the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania”

   Synonymsliving

   Similarextant

Questions about surviving

What does surviving mean?

surviving means "still in existence".

How many syllables are in surviving?

surviving has 3 syllables: sur-vi-ving. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /sɚˈvaɪvɪŋ/.

What is another word for surviving?

Close synonyms include living. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surviving a common word?

surviving is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surviving?

1 word rhymes with surviving. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.