sole survivor
Last one standing
A sole survivor is the only person who remains alive after an event that killed others—a plane crash, a massacre, an epidemic.
The phrase emphasizes both singularity and loss: She was the sole survivor of the shipwreck.
It appears in legal contexts for inheritance and insurance, and in popular culture as a dramatic premise.
- loneExisting by itself
- lastFinal in sequence
- remainingStill present after removal
- final girlSlasher film's survivor
- rescuedFreed from danger
last one standing · search and rescue · tragedy · plane crash · wreckage · miracle · narrow escape · walked away · aftermath · crash · shipwreck · disaster · against all odds · witness · trauma · haunted · escape · alive
- survivorsescapee, castaway, refugee, war refugee, veteran
- survival storiesescape story, shipwreck tales, shipwreck, plane crash, rescue story
- lone/single thingslone wolf, hermit, singleton, only child
- lonershermit, recluse, loner, lone wolf, introvert
- survivalendure, persist, last, outlast, withstand
- draft defermentsdraft deferment, deferment, draft exemption, military exemption, student deferment