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survivalist

survivalist

19 7.5
A person who stores food and learns to live without help after disasters
  • noun
  • /sərˈvaɪvəlɪst/
translation icon : survivalista
  • After years of training and planning, she became a skilled survivalist, ready for any disaster.
  • survivalist revisionism

And he turned out, he turned out to be a conniving survivalist until he got a little cocky.

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Examples

  • "Some of these folks are true survivalists and show amazing ingenuity.

    Academic text (2009)
  • I grew up on a survivalist compound.

  • You may very well be working with a survivalist and not even know it.

    Blog text (18)
  • I heard from a family of survivalist ranchers in Montana.

  • My partner, Holly, having made this trip several times prior, is the only person in our group possessing any real outdoor survivalist skills.

  • You know what, it's funny, but I probably qualify as an A-1 100% survivalist by most definitions.

    Blog text (18)
  • Yes, we may have become survivalists, but I'm not sure that that's a good thing.

  • No, there's a survivalist colony in Baja.

  • If you're a farmer or prepared survivalist, once the SHTF, you're going to remember those stories.

    Blog text (8)
  • That's why we are the preppers/survivalists and they are the conforming driven masses.

    Blog text (18)

Synonyms

prepper
vssurvivalist
  • UK
13 8.1

A person who gets ready for disasters by storing extra food, water, and learning skills to survive

focuses on preparing for large-scale societal collapse with strong self-sufficiency skills

How Independent

survivalist
19 7.5
mountain man
  • US
7 6.5
outdoorsman
9 6.5
weekender
3 4.9

Surface Forms

survivalist singular
survivalists plural

Morphology

survivalist = survival (transparent) = survival + ist

A straightforward agentive formation from the noun 'survival' using the productive suffix '-ist' to mean a person who engages in survival practices.

Etymology

The word survivalist comes from survival, which comes from survive meaning 'to live through' or 'keep living', plus the ending -ist meaning 'a person'. So, a survivalist is someone who prepares and stores supplies to keep living after a big disaster.