survivor vs beast

survivor and beast both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
survivor	Yes	No	No	No
beast	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beast is a hypernym of survivor; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than survivor:

Other hypernyms of survivor include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.

survivor (noun)	beast (noun)
an animal that survives in spite of adversity	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
one who outlives another	a cruelly rapacious person
one who lives through affliction