# revival
## English
### Etymology

From revive +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.
* 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: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.”
** 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.
* 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: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.
** 2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin:As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
** 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.
* (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
* national revival
* revivalism
* revivalist
* revival meeting
* tent revival

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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: /reˈvaj.val/, /reˈvaj.vol/
* 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