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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
survivalist

from 1882 in various senses, from survival + -ist. As "one who practices outdoor survival skills" (often in anticipation of apocalypse or in fear of government), attested by 1981.

Wiktionary
survivalist

n. A person who believes in being prepared to survive and is actively preparing for possible future emergencies and disruptions in local, regional, national, or international social or political order.

WordNet
survivalist

n. someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation

Usage examples of "survivalist".

Van Buskirk of Montreal exotic reflective glasswares and glass-blowing hardware and broom and ordnance and survivalist cookware and hip postcards and black-lather gag soap and cheesy old low-demand InterLace 3rd-Grid cartridges and hand-buzzers and fraudulent but seductive X-ray spectacles and they were sent through the remains of Provincial Autoroute 557 U.

Are you one of those crazy survivalists who lives out in the Oregon woods and collects high powered rifles and small tanks?

Vocational Educator Larsen, or the David Larsen who paints handmade inorganic toys and designs gastrointestinal recycling worms for export to Manichean survivalists?

Now that his adrenaline levels were declining toward normal and now that the primitive survivalist within him had returned to his genetic subcellar, the enormity of what had happened belatedly hit him.

These survivalists wanted a prediction, Smith-Ng thought, standing on the cliff edge above the Pacific, unable to retreat because of his uncertainty about what Victoria might do, unable to respond to their demands for fear that the wrong prediction might set off this cult into a paroxysm of murder and suicide.

This place could support its complement of survivalists for years, but after a few uneventful months morale would begin to deteriorate.

He says they also seem popular with survivalists bracing for another world war.

An element of the digital underground particularly dotes on those "anarchy philes," and this element tends to shade into the crackpot milieu of survivalists, gun-nuts, anarcho-leftists and the ultra-libertarian right-wing.

An element of the digital underground particularly dotes on those "anarchy philes," and this element tends to shade into the crackpot milieu of survivalists, gun-nuts, anarcho-leftists and the ultra-libertarian right-wing.

They were streaming into the car park from all quarters now: the orphan Frasque, the injured and crazed, survivalists in blackface with camouflage rucksacks, dissatisfied robots, drunken spacers on furlough, looters on speed, smiling plugheads in blue cagoules, Perks toting trophies, Thrants in leather, corpses of all kinds with Alteceans going through their pockets.

The point is not to resist by clinging to older visions and values -- a mistake made alike by the survivalist Right and the communitarian Left.

I was trying to get close to the brother of a survivalist group leader.

These three were obviously some variety of neo-Nazi / Christian Identity / Aryan Brotherhood types, one of the groupuscules that had set up redoubts in northern Idaho through the eighties and nineties as part of the survivalist wave - or the scum on the wave, to be more descriptive.

Those survivalist bastard Planners, and maybe even that wizened bitch Armonk.

Her husband had paid fifty thousand dollars for membership in the Earth House timesharing plan: two weeks every year, for life, in what the pamphlets called a “luxurious survivalist fortress in the mountains of southern Idaho.