Definition of surviving

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • surviving is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 16
  • surviving is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 16
  • surviving is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 21

Definition of surviving


  • still in existence (adjective)

    Examples

    1. 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
    2. the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania

    Synonyms

    1. living

See definition of surviving in Merriam Webster