outliver
9.9
A thing that lasts or works longer than others of its kind
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌlɪvər/
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remanente
- That small bookstore proved the only outliver of a busy shopping street, open since 1954.
Examples
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Among all the old traditions, this festival is the true outliver in our village.
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The ancient oak tree became the last outliver of the original forest.
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Can you name an outliver in your family?
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The outliver of the group survived against all odds.
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The ancient oak tree became the last outliver of the original forest.
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Among all the old traditions, this festival is the true outliver in our village.
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That small bookstore proved the only outliver of a busy shopping street, open since 1954.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outliver starts with out- ('more than' or 'beyond') and uses live ('to be alive'), and the -er ending can name a thing as well as a person. So an outliver is something or someone that 'lives beyond' the others — it continues to exist or work longer than the rest.
