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revival en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ɹɪˈvaɪ̯vəl] ~ [ɹɪˈvaɪ̯vl̩]
  • /ɹəˈvaɪvəl/
  • (UK) audio
  • /ɹɪˈvaɪ̯vəl/
  • [ɹəˈvaɪ̯vəl] ~ [ɹəˈvaɪ̯vl̩]

Etymology

Etymology tree English revive Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English revival From revive + -al.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
    • 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. 2021 April 20, Rafael Behr, “The future of the United Kingdom depends on a Labour revival in England”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2021:
  3. (countable, uncountable) Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
    • post-punk revival
    • 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.” 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, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022:
    • 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. 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:
    • 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. 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:
  4. (countable, uncountable) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
    • 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.” 2022 January 12, John Ortved, quoting Kat Frey, “That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022:
    • the revival of hot pants
  5. (countable, uncountable) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
    • 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. 2023 January 18, Matt Soniak, “When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade”, in Mental Floss, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2025:
    • 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. 2012, Megan Adamson Sijapati, Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • 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. 2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin:
  6. (countable, uncountable) 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.
  7. (countable, uncountable) 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
  8. (countable, uncountable) Revivification, as of a metal.
  9. (countable, uncountable) Type of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.

Forms

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Deriveds

Pueblo Revival · prorevival · revival meeting · Mediterranean Revival · national revival · prerevival · postrevival · revivalism · nonrevival · revivalist · tent revival · devival

Synonyms

revive

Translations (53)

ru оживле́ние (renewed interest, performance etc.) · ru возобновле́ние (renewed interest, performance etc.) · es revival (renewed interest, performance etc.) · eo revivigo (reviving) · bg оживление (renewed interest, performance etc.) · hu felelevenítés (renewed interest, performance etc.) · pt avivamento (renewed interest in religion) · mg fifohazana (renewed interest in religion) · ru возрожде́ние (renewed interest in religion) · gd dùsgadh (renewed interest in religion) · pt reavivamento (renewed interest, performance etc.) · fr réveil (renewed interest in religion) · mi whakahaumanutanga (reviving) · got 𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (reviving) · es avivamiento (renewed interest in religion) · ru ревива́ль (renewed interest in religion) · wa rivicaedje (renewed interest, performance etc.) · it risveglio (renewed interest in religion) · mi haumanutanga (reviving) · wa ravicance (reviving) · hu felújítás (renewed interest, performance etc.) · es reviviscencia (reviving) · ja 復活 (renewed interest in religion) · he תחייה (reviving) · de Wiederbelebung (reviving) · gd ath-bheothachadh (renewed interest, performance etc.) · wa ravicaedje (reviving) · es reavivación (renewed interest, performance etc.) · it rinvigorimento (renewed interest, performance etc.) · ja 復活 (renewed interest, performance etc.) · fr résurrection (reviving) · es revivificación (renewed interest, performance etc.) · gd ath-bheothachadh (reviving) · hu megújhodás (renewed interest in religion) · ru оживле́ние (reviving) · mi whakaoranga (reviving) · ja 復活 (reviving) · de Erweckung (renewed interest in religion) · hu feléledés (reviving) · hu felélesztés (reviving) · gd ath-bheothachadh (renewed interest in religion) · es reavivamiento (renewed interest, performance etc.) · bg оживяване (reviving) · vo dönulifükam (reviving) · be адраджэ́нне (renewed interest, performance etc.) · hu megújulás (renewed interest in religion) · it risveglio (reviving) · it rinnovamento (renewed interest in religion) · ru возрожде́ние (reviving) · es revitalización (renewed interest, performance etc.) · be адраджэ́нне (reviving) · it rinnovamento (renewed interest, performance etc.) · fr renaissance (reviving)