revival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: revivals
Etymology: From revive + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2021 April 20, Rafael Behr, “The future of the United Kingdom depends on a Labour revival in England”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
examples: text: post-punk revival
text: 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.
ref: 2002 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Seducer In a Revival Of a Revival”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 May 2025:
text: 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.”
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:
glosses: Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
examples: text: the revival of hot pants
text: 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.”
ref: 2022 January 12, John Ortved, quoting Kat Frey, “That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Megan Adamson Sijapati, Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: While masturbation was never favored in Judeo-Christian tradition, Victorian morality, along with the Great Awakening and other religious revivals in America, created a perfect storm for people to really get obsessed with it.
ref: 2023 January 18, Matt Soniak, “When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade”, in Mental Floss:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
examples: text: the revival of a debt barred by limitation
text: the revival of a revoked will
topics: law
glosses: Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Revivification, as of a metal.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Type of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.
Synonyms: word: revive
Derived terms: devival
Mediterranean Revival
national revival
Pueblo Revival
revivalism
revivalist
revival meeting
tent revival