STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE

Meaning of STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE in English

[struggle for existence] (1832): the automatic competition (as for food, space, or light) of members of a natural population that tends to eliminate less efficient individuals and thereby increase the chance of the more efficient to pass on inherited adaptive traits

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — Date: 1832 the automatic competition of members of a natural population for limited vital resources (as food, space, or light) …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — : the automatic competition of the members of a natural population for a limited supply of vital necessities resulting in …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — the competition in nature among organisms of a population to maintain themselves in a given environment and to survive to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — fight for life and death, fight that determines one's continuity
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — Date: 1832 : the automatic competition of members of a natural population for limited vital resources (as food, space, or …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — 1832 : the automatic competition of members of a natural population for limited vital resources (as food, space, or light) …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — A factor of Darwin 's Principle of Natural Selection . Life reproduces in a greater number than can be sustained.
Theological and Philosophical Biography English vocab
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — борьба за существование
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — борьба за существование
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — борьба за существование
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — борьба за существование
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — борьба за существование
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике и финансам
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — борьба за существование
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRUGGLE — I. ˈstrəgəl verb ( struggled ; struggled ; struggling -g(ə)liŋ ; struggles ) Etymology: Middle English struglen intransitive verb 1. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FOR — I. fə(r), (|)fȯ(ə)r, (|)fȯ(ə), in R speech in the southern US also (|)fär preposition Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — -tən(t)s noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin existentia, exsistentia state or fact of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRUGGLE — (v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's …
Английский словарь Webster
EXISTENCE — (n.) Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of …
Английский словарь Webster
EXISTENCE — (n.) The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and …
Английский словарь Webster
STRUGGLE — ( v. i. ) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — ( n. ) The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STRUGGLE — — struggler , n. — strugglingly , adv. /strug"euhl/ , v. , struggled, struggling , n. v.i. 1. to contend …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — /ig zis"teuhns/ , n. 1. the state or fact of existing; being. 2. continuance in being or life; life: a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STRUGGLE — I. ˈstrə-gəl intransitive verb ( strug·gled ; strug·gling -g(ə-)liŋ) Etymology: Middle English struglen Date: 14th century 1. : to make …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EXISTENCE — noun Date: 14th century 1. a. obsolete : reality as opposed to appearance b. : reality as presented in experience …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STRUGGLE — noun contest; contention; strife. 2. struggle ·noun a violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress. 3. …
Webster English vocab
EXISTENCE — noun that which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences. 2. existence ·noun continued or repeated manifestation; …
Webster English vocab
STRUGGLE — [strug.gle] vi strug.gled ; strug.gling [ME struglen] (14c) 1: to make strenuous or violent efforts against opposition: contend 2: to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
STRUGGLE — / ˈstrʌgl; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb 1. struggle (for sth) to try very hard to do sth …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — / ɪgˈzɪstəns; NAmE / noun 1. [ U ] the state or fact of being real or living or of …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FOR — I. for 1 S1 W1 /fə; strong fɔː $ fər strong fɔːr/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EXISTENCE — ex ‧ ist ‧ ence S3 W2 /ɪɡˈzɪst ə ns/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ existence …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STRUGGLE — v. & n. --v.intr. 1 make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction. 2 (often foll. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EXISTENCE — n. 1 the fact or condition of being or existing. 2 the manner of one's existing or living, esp. under …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
STRUGGLE — v. & n. v.intr. 1 make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction. 2 (often foll. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — n. 1 the fact or condition of being or existing. 2 the manner of one's existing or living, esp. under …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — n.1 the fact or condition of being or existing. 2 the manner of one's existing or living, esp. under adverse …
Oxford English vocab
STRUGGLE — ( struggles, struggling, struggled) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FOR — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — ( existences) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The existence of something …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EXISTENCE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES deny the existence of sth ▪ The government has denied the existence of any political …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STRUGGLE — [noun] [C]Trying to accept her death was a terrible struggle for him.At last, her struggle for recognition as a painter …
Cambridge English vocab
EXISTENCE — [noun]Many people question the existence of God. [U]Modern cosmology believes the Universe to have come into existence about fifteen billion …
Cambridge English vocab
EXISTENCE — Synonyms and related words : accessibility, actual presence, actuality, an existence, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, availability, being, being alive, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRUGGLE — I. noun 1 fight ADJECTIVE ▪ epic , great , life-and-death , titanic ▪ bitter , desperate , fierce , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — noun 1 state of existing ADJECTIVE ▪ actual , real ▪ El Cid's actual ~ is not in doubt. ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
EXISTENCE — See ↑ EXIST 1, ↑ LIFE 2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ come into being/existence • ↑ eke out a living/an existence
Longman Activator English vocab
STRUGGLE — n. 25B6; verb they struggled to do better : STRIVE, try hard, endeavour, make every effort, do one's best/utmost, bend …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
EXISTENCE — n. 25B6; noun the industry's continued existence : ACTUALITY, being, existing, reality; survival, continuation. her suburban existence : WAY OF …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRUGGLE — v. 1 strive, strain, expend energy, exert oneself, labour, endeavour, try, attempt He struggled to keep his head above water …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
EXISTENCE — n. 1 being, presence, actuality, fact Most cultures believe in the existence of one god or more 2 life, living; …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
EXISTENCE — The assertion that a thing is, not what it is as a concept of essence. For existentialists, existence is mere …
Theological and Philosophical Biography English vocab
STRUGGLE — 1. сущ. 1) борьба a struggle against poverty ≈ борьба с бедностью a struggle for justice ≈ борьба за справедливость …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FOR — (полная форма); (редуцированная форма) 1. союз 1) ибо; ввиду того, что (вводит придаточное причины) This is no party question, for …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
EXISTENCE — сущ. 1) уст. действительность Syn : reality 2) бытие, жизнь to lead a certain existence ≈ вести определенное существование to …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRUGGLE — struggle.ogg 1. ʹstrʌg(ə)l n 1. борьба the class struggle - классовая борьба desperate struggle - отчаянная борьба /схватка/ power struggle …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FOR — for.ogg 1. fɔ: n довод в пользу чего-л. fors and againsts - доводы за и против 2. fɔ: (полная форма); …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
EXISTENCE — existence.ogg ıgʹzıst(ə)ns n 1. существование; наличие in existence - существующий, наличный, имеющийся (в природе) the existence of civilization - существование …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STRUGGLE — struggle сущ.1) борьба a struggle against poverty — борьба с бедностью a struggle for justice — борьба за справедливость a …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
EXISTENCE — existence сущ.1) устар. действительность Syn:reality 2) бытие, жизнь to lead a certain existence — вести определенное существование to eke out …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
STRUGGLE — 1. ʹstrʌg(ə)l n 1. борьба the class struggle - классовая борьба desperate struggle - отчаянная борьба /схватка/ power struggle - …
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