different between victims vs survival

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?kt?mz/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?v?kt?mz/
• Hyphenation: vic?tims

Noun

victims

1. plural of victim

English

Etymology

From survive +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??va?v?l/

Noun

survival (countable and uncountable, plural survivals)

1. The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.

   His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.

2. (as a modifier) Of, relating to or aiding survival.

   His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness.

3. (sports) The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
   • 2000, Dan Goldstein, The Rough Guide to English Football: A Fans' Handbook 2000-2001:

     […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […]

   • 2013, Alan Stubbs, How Football Saved My Life, page 139:

     "Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival."

4. (anthropology) A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.

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Further reading

• survival in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• survival in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.