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Renaissance

Definition: Renaissance

Renaissance

Noun

1. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries.

2. The revival of learning and culture.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Renaissance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Renaissance

DomainDefinition

Literature

Renaissance (French). A term applied in the arts to that peculiar style of decoration revived by Raphael, and which resulted from ancient paintings exhumed in the pontificate of Leo X. (16th century). The French Renaissance is a Gothic skeleton with classic details. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Renaissance

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

For information about the rock band Renaissance, see: Renaissance (band)

The Renaissance was a cultural movement and time period in the History of Europe, considered to mark the end of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the 14th century in Italy and the 16th century in northern Europe. It is also known as "Rinascimento" (in Italian).

"Renaissance" is a French word coined by Burckhardt in the 19th century that literally means rebirth. This name has been historically used in contrast to the Dark Ages, a term coined by Petrarch to refer to what we now call the Middle Ages. Following Petrarch's lead, the term had long been considered appropriate because during the Renaissance, the literature and culture of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome were adopted by scholars and artists in Italy, and widely disseminated through printing. During the last quarter of the 20th century, however, more and more scholars began to take a view that the Renaissance was perhaps only one of many such movements. This was in large part due to the work of historians like Charles H. Haskins, who made convincing cases for a "Renaissance of the 12th century," as well as by historians arguing for a "Carolingian renaissance." Both of these concepts are now accepted by the scholarly community at large; as a result, the present trend among historians is to discuss each so-called renaissance in more particular terms, e.g., the Italian Renaissance, the English Renaissance, etc. This terminology is particularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The renaissance" into a chronology that previously held that it was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation, which was sometimes patently false. The entire period is now more often replaced by the term 'Early Modern' in the practice of historians. See periodization.

The following article discusses the Renaissance in its most traditional form, as a cultural and scientific rebirth that began in 14th c. Italy, where one of its main centers was Florence, and then spread throughout Europe. In science, theology, literature and art, the Renaissance began with a rediscovery of and focus on older Greek texts which had disappeared from the West in the latter years of the Roman Empire. Towards the end of the Renaissance, scientists increasingly began to reject Greek (and biblical) sources in favor of new discoveries. Theologians continued to focus on the Greek, as well as on the relatively new study of Hebrew and Aramaic. The second half of the Renaissance is also the period of the Reformation.

Rinascimento is also considered as a sort of natural evolution of Italian Umanesimo.

Some historians mark the end of the Renaissance as May 6, 1527, when Spanish and German troops sacked Rome. In music history the end date is usually given as 1600, or even 1620.

Important Renaissance Political Leaders:

Important Renaissance Religious Figures: Important Renaissance authors: Important Renaissance artists: See also: Early Renaissance paintings, Art History

Important Renaissance scientists:

Important Renaissance philosophers: Important Renaissance composers: Important Renaissance dancemasters:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Renaissance."

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Renaissance (band)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Renaissance was a 1970s progressive rock band. They were characterized by Annie Haslam's soaring vocals, classical-style piano, and a (near) lack of electric guitar.

History

Former Yardbirds Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf and Jim McCarty organised a new group devoted to experimentation between rock, folk, and classical forms - Renaissance. This quintet (bassist Louis Cenammo, pianist John Hawken, and Relf's sister Jane as an additional vocalist) released a pair of albums on Elektra, but dissolved almost as quickly as it assembled, leaving McCarty to reform the band into a very different lineup, though McCarty also soon departed.

This new lineup, the best-known of the band's history, consisted of Annie Haslam (vocals), Michael Dunford (acoustic guitar), John Tout (piano), Jon Camp (bass) and Terry Sullivan (drums). Along with Rob Hendry (electric guitar), this quintet released Prologue in 1972. The music was written primarily by Dunford and McCarty, with lyrics by poet Betty Thatcher. Hendry departed as the group turned away from the electric guitar in their music.

In the 1970s, Renaissance had a commercially successful career, their sound similar in many ways to folk rock with classical overtones that was fractured by too many veerings into sheer pretentiousness and the group's inability to seem as though they were doing anything much beyond robotic concert reproductions of their studio recordings. Not even Haslam's shimmering voice and gracious, almost loving stage style, could obscure that flaw. As enjoyable as it is for summing up the first four years of their career, 1976's Live at Carnegie Hall could have been their original recordings with an overdubbed orchestra and canned applause, except for a surprising version of "Ashes Are Burning" that actually found the quintet loosening up and unfurling a patient round of improvisation. Still, by the time of this album, any connection between this Renaissance and the one which rose from the ashes of the Yardbirds was in name only.

Renaissance scored a number 1 hit single in 1978 with Northern Lights, taken from the album A Song for All Seasons, but the band floundered following 1979's Azure D'or as fans were unhappy with the band's turn towards synthesizers. Camp had assumed more of the band's songwriting chores, and Tout and Sullivan left. Haslam, Dunford and Camp released a pair of albums in the 1980s and then broke up. Their albums were not available on CD for some time, though a pair of compilations were issued in 1990. During the 1990s, though, much of their catalog has been released.

In the late 1990s, both Haslam and Dunford formed their own bands using the name Renaissance, and have released albums with different line-ups.

Discography

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Renaissance architecture

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The cultural movement called the Renaissance was expressed in architecture in new emphasis on rational clarity and regularity of parts, arranged in simple mathematical proportions and in a conscious revival of Roman architectural practice in structure and details. Renaissance architecture originated in Florence and central Italy in the early 15th century as an expression of Humanism. In Italy, four phases of Renaissance style can be identified: the Early Renaissance of Leone Battista Alberti and Filippo Brunelleschi, the High Renaissance of Donato Bramante and Raphael, the widely diverging Mannerist tendencies in some work of Michelangelo and Giulio Romano and Andrea Palladio, and finally the Baroque (q.v.), in which the same architectural vocabulary is used for such different rhetoric that it deserves a separate entry.

When the Renaissance spirit was imported into Spain, France, England, the Low Countries, Germany, Sweden and Poland, the style appeared fully formed, all at once, but compromised with local traditions, and so its phases are not so clearly distinguished in individual buildings.

Early Renaissance

Florence

Brunelleschi and Alberti

Filippo Brunelleschi, Leone Battista Alberti,

Milan

Filarete, Leonardo, Bramante

Venice

Palace design

High Renaissance

Rome: St. Peter's

Raphael and Giulio Romano

Roman churches

Roman palaces

Mannerism

Michelangelo

Peruzzi and Antonio da San Gallo

Sanmichele and Sansovino

Serlio and Vignola

Palladio and the villa

French Renaissance

Flemish Renaissance

English Renaissance

German, Polish and Swedish Renaissance

Spanish Renaissance

Main works of art that mark important points in Renaissance architecture:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Renaissance architecture."

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Renaissance music

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Classical music written during the Renaissance period, approximately 1450 to 1600 A.D.

It is characterized by the introduction of the interval of the third into European art music (in the Middle Ages, thirds had been considered dissonances: see interval), and the continued development of polyphony (Greek: many-voices). Masses, motets and other liturgical music was composed for churches; aristocrats and rich bourgeois sang, played and were entertained by secular songs for many voices or consort music for recorder or viol da gamba. Printing made music more widely available.

Forms

Composers

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Renaissance

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

RENAISSANCE

EnglishIntegration of High Performance Services for Interactive Vocational TrainingComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Renaissance

Synonyms: rebirth (n), renascence (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Renaissance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Restoration

Renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence,. new birth; regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness; palingenesis, reconversion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Renaissance

English words defined with "Renaissance": Albrecht Durer, Attic base ♦ basement ♦ cromorne, crumhorn ♦ da Vinci, dark ages, Desiderius Erasmus, doublet, Durer ♦ Erasmus ♦ Firenze, Florence ♦ Galen, Geert Geerts, Gerhard Gerhards ♦ humanism, humanist, humanistic ♦ jag ♦ krummhorn ♦ Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci ♦ Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, middle ages ♦ Neo-Latin, New Latin ♦ Pre-Raphaelite ♦ quattrocento ♦ Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio, Raphael, Renaissance man, Renaissant. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Renaissance": Attics, Attic Storey ♦ commercial at ♦ Manufacturer Resource Planning, Misnomers. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Renaissance" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (reawakening, rebirth, renaissance, renascence, revival, upsurge), German (rebirth, renaissance, revival).

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Modern Usage: Renaissance

DomainUsage

Screenplays

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda)

, I think you should establish a good line of credit, like how you got your couch, payment plans, remember how your mother brought in $10 for a year and she finally got her couch Renaissance style (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

That was the Renaissance. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Yes. To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Clever

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Renaissance (1970)

John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance (1964)

Renaissance (1963)

The Renaissance at Charleroi (1917)

Renaissance d'Aphrodite (1996)

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Commercial Usage: Renaissance

DomainTitle

References

  • Renaissance Energy Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • A History of Military Medicine: Vol II: From the Renaissance Through Modern Times (Contributions in Military Studies) (reference)

  • The Miltonic Moment (Studies in the English Renaissance) (reference)

  • Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style (reference)

  • Image Government: Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art, 1649-1702 (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies) (reference)

  • Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Coins and Moneys of Account (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Renaissance

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Photo Album: Renaissance

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Dredging operations on the EXPLORER Seattle to Norfolk trip 1960 marked renaissance of oceanography in C&GS Under direction of Dr. Harris B. Stewart. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regiomontanus, seated beneath an armillary sphere and surrounded by decorated border. Credit: Library of Congress.

Renaissance sculpture gallery, auditorium, Worcester Art Museum. Credit: Library of Congress.

Photograph of a painting of a man in Renaissance clothing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crédit National pour faciliter la réparation des dommages causés par la guerre. Souscrivez pour hâter la renaissance des pays dévasdéts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crédit National pour faciliter la réparation des dommages causés par la guerre. Souscrivez pour hâter la renaissance des pays dévasdéts. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Renaissance
 

"Renaissance chair" by Peter Hamza
Commentary: "As the title says :)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Renaissance

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Colombian infrastructure investment is in the midst of a long-needed renaissance. (references)

In terms of production, car output hit a 27-year high to reach 1.79 million units, spurred mainly by a renaissance at Jaguar and new models from Vauxhall and Peugeot. (references)

With the lack of infrastructure and shortage of funds, the African Renaissance will rely on the public sector and private enterprise to deliver telecommunications services in the rest of Africa. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

In the past, the authorities, citing these statutes, have denied registration to the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP). (references)

Tajikistan

The Islamic Renaissance Party broadcast a weekly television program on another independent station; however, the program closed broadcasting during the summer due to internal management disputes. (references)

Tajikistan

Parties of religious character are permitted to register; one such party, the Islamic Renaissance Party, has done so. There are five political parties and five "movements" registered with the Government. (references)

Economic History

Bahamas

This renaissance has also reached other hotels on the island. (references)

Italy

Europe's Renaissance period began in Italy during the 14th and 15th centuries. (references)

Italy

Although Italy declined after the 16th century, the Renaissance had strengthened the idea of a single Italian nationality. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

In July individual members of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), acting on behalf of the African Renaissance Civic Movement (ARCM), organized an illegal occupation of land in Bredell on the East Rand. (references)

Indigenous People

Sweden

As a result of such education, northern Sami dialects have enjoyed a renaissance; however, Sami dialects in the southern portions of traditional Sami lands may have too few native speakers to survive as living languages. (references)

Political Economy

Honduras

A democratic renaissance began in 1980, however, when elections were held for a constituent assembly that subsequently produced Honduras's current constitution. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

The Committee did not approve any parties during the year and rejected the application of the Mubarak Renaissance Party; the party then appealed to the courts, which had not heard the case by year's end. (references)

Tajikistan

Days before the election, an apparently arbitrary Supreme Court decision allowed one of the three aspiring opposition candidates, Economics and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Davlat Usmon of the Islamic Renaissance Party, to register. (references)

Tajikistan

Candidates from the Islamic Renaissance Party and Democratic party were not allowed to register, leaving the remaining candidates from the President's People's Democratic Party (in Sughd and Khatlon) and the Communist Party (in Dushanbe) to run unopposed. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

Other methods of financing include: (1) the Prague-based venture capital firms such as Renaissance and Advent, that have expanded their operations to include Slovakia; (2) the Slovak-American Enterprise Fund, which was endowed by the U.S. Congress and provides support for the growth of the Slovak SMEs; and, (3) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Renaissance

SpeakerPhrase(s)

John Hartmann

Phil made money in a lot of directions. He was a Renaissance man. He was a brilliant artist who worked for me as my art department when I was managing a lot of top musical acts. And he did other album covers and logos and ad layouts, and he was a genius.

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Usage Frequency: Renaissance

"Renaissance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.30% of the time. "Renaissance" is used about 1,140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.3%1,1326,752
Noun (proper)0.7%8124,375
                    Total100.00%1,140N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Renaissance

CountryNameCountryName
Canada

Renaissance Energy Ltd.

South Africa

Renaissance Retail Group Limited

USA

Renaissance Acceptance Group, Inc.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Renaissance

Expressions using "Renaissance": high Renaissance ♦ renaissance man ♦ the renaissance. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Renaissance": Renaissance-in-disneyland, renaissance-style.

Ending with "Renaissance": neo-renaissance, post-renaissance.

Containing "Renaissance": classical-renaissance-enlightenment.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Renaissance

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

renaissance

4,282

renaissance music

131

renaissance hotel

1,636

renaissance chicago hotel

129

harlem renaissance

1,086

renaissance wailea beach resort

112

renaissance art

983

renaissance period

111

renaissance festival

842

renaissance artist

111

renaissance fair

755

renaissance jamaica grande resort

108

renaissance costume

634

aruba renaissance

108

renaissance clothing

618

renaissance wedding dress

107

italian renaissance

534

festival minnesota renaissance

105

renaissance faire

502

renaissance man

102

computer renaissance

377

renaissance faires

101

colorado festival renaissance

359

renaissance pleasure faire

99

renaissance dress

258

renaissance hollywood hotel

99

bristol faire renaissance

185

renaissance home

96

renaissance jamaica grande

158

renaissance gown

93

bristol fair renaissance

150

festival renaissance sterling

93

renaissance painting

148

festival georgia renaissance

92

renaissance learning

146

renaissance orlando resort

92

renaissance jewelry

141

renaissance wailea

90

renaissance wedding

131

renaissance clothes

89
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Modern Translation: Renaissance

Language Translations for "Renaissance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ringjallje (reappearance, regeneration, renascence, resurrection, revival, revivification), rilindje (rebirth, regenerate, renascence, renewal, resurrection), epokë e relindjës. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نهضة (awakening, rebirth, renewal, revival, rising), ‏ولادة جديدة (rebirth), ‏حركة من النشاط الفني, ‏تجدد (be renewed, modernization, regenerate, regeneration, rejuvenate, rejuvenation, renewal, renovation, repeat, resurrection, revival), ‏عودة (pay-book, recurrence, resumption, return, returning), ‏عصر النهضة, ‏صحوة (revival), ‏رجوع (recession, recurrence, resilient, retreat, returning), ‏بعث (bundle, cast, despatch, dispatch, forward, hand, hand over, mission, reanimate, recall, regenerate, regeneration, restoration, resurrect, resurrection, rise, risen, rising, send, send in, telegram). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ренесансов, ренесанс, възраждане (palingenesis, rebirth, renascence, renewal, revival). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

新生 (freshman, Freshmen, Natal). (various references)

   

Czech

  

renesance (renascence), obroda (regeneration), obnova (recovery, renewal, resurgence). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

رنسانس , دوره تجددادبی وفرهنگی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

renessanssi (the Renaissance, the Revival of Learning). (various references)

   

French

  

renaissance (reawakening, rebirth, renascence, revival). (various references)

   

German

  

Renaissance (rebirth, revival). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναγέννηση (rebirth, regeneracy, regeneration, renascence). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תחיה (rebirth, regeneration, renascence, renewal, revival), רנסנס. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

reneszánsz. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kebangunan (awakening, uprising). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rinascita (rebirth, resurgence, revival), rinascimento. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ルーン文字 (look, looks, Louis Vuitton, Louisiana, lure, lutetium, lux, Luxembourg, R and B, Renault, ressentiment, rhythm, rhythm and blues, rhythm box, rhythm machine, ruby, ruby glass, rune, ruthenium), 文芸復興 , 復興　 (reconstruction, revival), 復興 (reconstruction, revival). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ルネッサンス , ルネサンス , ぶんげいふっこう, ふっこう (reconstruction, restoration of diplomatic relations, return flight or voyage, return to school, revival). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

르네상스. (various references)

   

Manx

  

aavioghey (enlivenment, rally, regenerate, resurrect, resurrection, resuscitation, revival, revive), aaruggyr (rebirth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enaissanceray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

renascimento (regeneration, renascence, revival), renascença (renascence). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

renaştere (rebirth, renascence, renewal, resurgence, revival). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ренессанс. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

renesansa (renascence, renascense), preporod (palingenesis, rebirth, regeneration, renascence, renascense). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

renacimiento (rebirth, renascence, revival). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

reorganisation (renascence, reorganization), renässans (give a dog a bad name and hang him). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การฟื้นฟูใหม่, ยุคฟื้นฟูศิลปะ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rönesans (rebirth, renascence), yeniden doğuş (rebirth, renascence), uyanma (awakening, dawn, shake up, waking up), uyanış (awakening, renascense, revival, shake up, wakening, waking up), canlanma (boom, coming to life, rebirth, refreshment, renascense, resurgence, revival). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ренесанс, відродження (reappearance, rebirth, regeneration, renascence, resurgence, revival, revivification, second born). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dadeni (reanimate, rebirth, regenerate, renascence). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Renaissance

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

renasci. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Renaissance

Derivations

Words beginning with "Renaissance": renaissances. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Renaissance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reinassance, renaiisance, renaiissance, renaisance, renaissanse, renassancce, renassance, renassiance, reneissance, reniasance, reniassance, renisence, renissance, rennaisance, rennaissance, Wrenaissance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Renaissance"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Renaissance" (pronounced re'nusÄ"ns)
3-Ä" n sensconce, nonchalance, ponce, response, sconce.

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Anagrams: Renaissance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-s-s"

-2 letters: anserines, canneries, cesareans, cesarians, increases, narceines.

-3 letters: acarines, acrasins, anserine, arcsines, arsenics, canaries, casernes, cesarean, cesarian, crannies, encaenia, ensnares, incenses, increase, insnares, narceine, narceins, nearness, niceness, raciness, rennases, scanners.

-4 letters: acarine, acrasin, ancress, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, arsines, ascaris, caesars, canines, canners, cannier, careens, carinae, carinas, carnies, casease, caseins, caserne, caserns, censers, cerises, creases.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: renaissances.

 

+2 letters: necessitarian.

 

+3 letters: ascertainments, necessitarians, reconnaissance, transparencies.

 

+4 letters: intransigeances, reconnaissances.

 

+5 letters: antirecessionary, inarticulateness, necessitarianism, tyrannicalnesses, unattractiveness, uncharitableness.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage 		13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient 		17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes 		21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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