revival
English
Etymology
From revive + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪvəl
- Hyphenation: re‧vi‧val
Noun
revival (countable and uncountable, plural revivals)
- The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
- Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
- 2021 April 20, Rafael Behr, “The future of the United Kingdom depends on a Labour revival in England”, in The Guardian:
- It is hard to sell a democratic partnership of nations from a stall that only stocks Conservative governments. Unionism needs a Labour revival in England.
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- Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
- post-punk revival
- 2002 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Seducer In a Revival Of a Revival”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- The Met's recent revival of Jürgen Flimm's powerful production of Beethoven's “Fidelio,” another highlight of the 2000-1 season, was a similar letdown. But revivals of great productions don't always have to be disappointments, as the Met's current presentation of Poulenc's “Dialogues des Carmélites” makes clear.
- 2021 June 16, Joe Muggs, quoting Ben UFO, “Subwoofers at the ready! The jungle and drum’n’bass revival is upon us”, in The Guardian:
- But then, this isn’t even the first time these genres are back, back, back. As DJ Ben UFO says: “There have been ‘jungle revivals’ regularly for at least as long as I’ve been DJing.”
- Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
- the revival of hot pants
- 2022 January 12, John Ortved, quoting Kat Frey, “That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Kat Frey, a 25-year-old copywriter who lives in Brooklyn, picked up the habit last year. “We’re having a very sexy and ethereal 1980s revival, and smoking is part of that,” she said. “A lot of people I know are posting pictures doing it. I’m doing it. It’s having its moment for sure.”
- (religion) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
- 2012, Megan Adamson Sijapati, Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation, Routledge, →ISBN:
- This book offers a view into a growing movement of Islamic revival as it is taking place in the small, historically Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the northern Himalayan edge of the Indian subcontinent.
- (Christianity) A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
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- (law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
- the revival of a debt barred by limitation
- the revival of a revoked will
- (chemistry) Revivification, as of a metal.
Derived terms
- devival
- revivalism
- revivalist
Translations
reviving
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renewed interest, performance etc.
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renewed interest in religion
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French
Noun
revival m (plural revivaux)
- revival
Further reading
- “revival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English revival.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈvaj.val/, /reˈvaj.vol/[1]
- Rhymes: -ajval, -ajvol
Noun
revival m
- revival
References
- revival in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- revival in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Noun
revival m (plural revivales)
- revival