revival

English

Etymology

From revive +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvəl
• Hyphenation: re‧vi‧val

Noun

revival (countable and uncountable, plural revivals)

1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
2. 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^[1]:

     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.

3. 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^[2], →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^[3]:

     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.

4. 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^[4], →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.”

5. (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^[5], 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.

   1. (Christianity) A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
6. (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

7. (chemistry) Revivification, as of a metal.

Derived terms

• devival
• national revival
• revivalism
• revivalist
• revival meeting
• tent revival

Translations

reviving

• Belarusian: адраджэ́нне n (adradžénnje)
• Bulgarian: оживяване (bg) n (oživjavane)
• Esperanto: revivigo
• French: renaissance (fr) f, résurrection (fr) f
• German: Wiederbelebung (de) f
• Hebrew: תחייה (t'khiyá)
• Hungarian: felélesztés (hu), feléledés (hu)
• Italian: risveglio (it) m
• Japanese: 復活 (ja) (fukkatsu)
• Maori: whakaoranga, whakahaumanutanga, haumanutanga
• Russian: оживле́ние (ru) n (oživlénije), возрожде́ние (ru) n (vozroždénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-bheothachadh m
• Spanish: reviviscencia (es) f
• Volapük: dönulifükam,
• Walloon: ravicaedje (wa) m, ravicance (wa) f

renewed interest, performance etc.

• Belarusian: адраджэ́нне n (adradžénnje)
• Bulgarian: оживление (bg) (oživlenie)
• Hungarian: felelevenítés (hu), felújítás (hu) (performance)
• Italian: rinnovamento (it) m, rinvigorimento (performance)
• Portuguese: reavivamento (pt) m
• Russian: возобновле́ние (ru) n (vozobnovlénije), оживле́ние (ru) n (oživlénije) (performance)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-bheothachadh m
• Spanish: revivificación f, revitalización f, reavivación f, reavivamiento m
• Walloon: rivicaedje (wa) m

renewed interest in religion

• French: réveil (fr) m
• German: Erweckung f
• Hungarian: megújulás (hu), megújhodás (hu)
• Italian: risveglio (it) m, rinnovamento (it) m
• Malagasy: fifohazana (mg)
• Portuguese: avivamento m
• Russian: возрожде́ние (ru) n (vozroždénije), ревива́ль m (reviválʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-bheothachadh m, dùsgadh m
• Spanish: avivamiento (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Czech: obrození n
• Dutch: heropleving (nl) f
• Esperanto: reviviĝo
• Polish: odrodzenie (pl), ożywienie (pl), przebudzenie n
• Russian: возрожде́ние (ru) n (vozroždénije), оживле́ние (ru) n (oživlénije), восстановле́ние (ru) n (vosstanovlénije), возобновле́ние (ru) n (vozobnovlénije)
• Telugu: పునరుజ్జీవనం (punarujjīvanaṁ)

French

Noun

revival m (plural revivaux)

1. 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/
• Rhymes: -ajval, -ajvol

Noun

revival m

1. revival

Further reading

• revival in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Noun

revival m (plural revivales)

1. revival