revival
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
broadcasting
chemistry
law
lifestyle
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
religion
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English revive
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English revival
From revive + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: revivals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: post-punk revival
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.
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.”
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.
gloss: Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the revival of hot pants
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.”
gloss: Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the revival of a debt barred by limitation
the revival of a revoked will
gloss: Revivification, as of a metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Type of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: revive
Derived words: devival
Mediterranean Revival
national revival
nonrevival
postrevival
prerevival
prorevival
Pueblo Revival
revivalism
revivalist
revival meeting
tent revival
Translations:
lang: French
word: réveil
lang: German
word: Erweckung
lang: Hungarian
word: megújulás
lang: Hungarian
word: megújhodás
lang: Italian
word: risveglio
lang: Italian
word: rinnovamento
lang: Japanese
word: 復活
lang: Malagasy
word: fifohazana
lang: Portuguese
word: avivamento
lang: Russian
word: возрожде́ние
roman: vozroždénije
lang: Russian
word: ревива́ль
roman: reviválʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ath-bheothachadh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dùsgadh
lang: Spanish
word: avivamiento