an antiquity that has survived from the distant past

In popular folklore, an undead being in human form that survives by sucking the blood of living people, especially at night, A kind of spectral being or ghost still possessing a human body, which, according to a superstition existing among the Slavic and other races on the lower Danube, leaves the grave during the night, and maintains a semblance of life by sucking the warm blood of living men and women while they are asleep, (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

One who or that which survives after the death of another, One who survives; one who endures through disaster or hardship, an animal that survives in spite of adversity

To remain alive or in existence, To remain functional or usable, To cope with (a trauma or setback); persevere after, transitive verb_ To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast, To live longer than; to outlive, To live past a life-threatening event, verb_ continue to live through hardship or adversity, support oneself, live longer than