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Definitions: Revival |
RevivalNoun1. The coming again into activity and prominence; "the revival of trade"; "a revival of a neglected play by Moliere"; "the Gothic revival in architecture". 2. An evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "revival" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Revival \Re*viv"al\, noun. [From Revive.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream you attend a religious revival, foretells family disturbances and unprofitable engagements. If you take a part in it, you will incur the displeasure of friends by your contrary ways. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | The presentation of an old favorite for a limited run. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | Restoration to effect of a will or codicil which has been revoked. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: RevivalSynonyms: resurgence (n), revitalisation (n), revitalization (n), revival meeting (n), revivification (n). (additional references) |
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Refreshment | Noun: bracing; Verb: recovery of strength, recuperation; restoration, revival; repair, refection, refocillation, refreshment, regalement, bait; relief. |
Reproduction | Noun: reproduction, renovation; restoration; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, |
Restoration | Noun: restoration, restoral; reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction; reproduction; renovation, renewal; revival, revivessence, reviviscence; refreshment; resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction; Phenix; reorganization. |
Worship | Prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing; petition; (request); collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster; beadroll; latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils; revival; cult; anxious meeting, camp meeting; ebenezer, virginal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Revival |
| English words defined with "revival": humanist, humanistic ♦ middle ages ♦ neoclassic, neoclassical, neoclassicism, neoromanticism ♦ Olympiad, Olympic Games, Olympics ♦ Reanimation, rebirth, Renaissance, renascence, resurgence, resurrection, revitalisation, revitalization, revival meeting, Revivement, revivification, Revivor ♦ Universal restoration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "revival": Cum Hoc, Propter Hoc ♦ FLORADORA ♦ Revival, REVIVAL CLERK, Revival of Letters in England, Revival of Painting and Sculpture, Rococo Architecture. (references) |
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Lyrics | Now I told you my reasons for the whole revival (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Revival (1965) Cesky revival (1991) | |
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 | Ornamental Plaster and cast-iron details. Measured drawing delineated by Harry Weir and A.H. Town, February 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS, MS-17-6, sheet 7 of 7) Completed in 1840, D'Evereux is an excellent example of the Greek Revival style, an architectural style popular throughout the United States, and especially in the South, before the Civil War. The style is loosely based on the architecture of ancient Greece. The builders of D'Evereux applied Greek and Roman architectural motifs to everything from the ironwork of the servants' quarters to the woodwork and the ceilings of the main house. Many of the architectural ornaments, such as the ones shown here, were inspired by ancient urns, buildings, and other artifacts found at the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior, detail of south wall. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, August 1970. (Reproduction Number: HABS TENN,19-NASH,13-7) The interior columns, moldings, and illusionistic fresco ornament shown here along the south wall of Nashvilles First Presbyterian Church are in the Egyptian Revival style, an exotic style of architecture that became popular in the first half of the nineteenth century following Napoleons conquests. The Egyptian Revival style is noted for its lotus-leaf-inspired capitals, bulging columns, and Egyptian gorges, the dramatically curved cornice topping many Egyptian buildings. Begun in 1849 by William Strickland, the architect of the Tennessee State Capitol, this is the largest and best-preserved Egyptian Revival church in the United States.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The spring revival is on.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Business revival" hatchet threatening "Depression" vulture.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The sunny South--a negro revival meeting--a seeker "getting religion" / W.L. Sheppard del.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Revival of the old slave laws of Louisiana--a scene in New Orleans--arrest of contrabands on the night of January 30 / From a sketch by our special artist.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group of Negro women at revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro preacher at revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gypsy Smith Revival, 7th Regiment Armory, Oct. 13th, 1909.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | George Peck's grand revival of Stetson's Uncle Tom's cabin booked by Klaw & Erlanger.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The date of the revival shall be that of the notification. (reference) |
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Business | After more than a decade of recession, the forestry sector in the Russian Far East (RFE) is going through a revival. (references) | |
Market demand from the automobile and semiconductor industries also has contributed substantially to the revival of the hand and power tool market. (references) | ||
Traditionally they have focused on the geographically closer regions of Northwest Russia or Siberia, rather than the RFE. With the revival of the RFE forestry sector, their interest in the local market is growing. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Turkmenistan | There is no state religion, but a modest revival of Islam has occurred since independence. (references) |
Moldova | Unregistered religious groups are not allowed to hold public assemblies, such as revival meetings. (references) | |
Samoa | Missionaries operate freely, either as part of one of the established churches, or by conducting independent revival meetings. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Prospects for an early revival of the Colombo Stock market remain dim. (references) |
Vietnam | Renewed confidence in the economy also spurred a revival in domestic demand. (references) | |
Georgia | The Union of Democratic Revival is a vehicle in Tbilisi for political representation of the Ajarian region. (references) | |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | The military government of President Musharraf, which took over on October 12, 1999, has made economic revival its main priority. (references) |
FINLAND | Liberalization of foreign investment has resulted in a strong revival of the Finnish stock market and greater corporate use of equity markets. (references) | |
Political Rights | Georgia | Only two presidential candidates campaigned actively: The incumbent, Eduard Shevardnadze; and Jumber Patiashvili of the Revival of Georgia Party. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Commercial banks' outstanding loans (inclusive of interbank credits) grew 2.6 percent year-in-year in 2000. The revival in bank lending has been modest thus far, with loans as of April 2001 up 5.6 percent over 2000's comparable period. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The revival at the end of the century of the same patriotic interest in the preservation and development of domestic industries and the defense of our working people against injurious foreign competition is an incident worthy of attention. |
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| "Revival" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.55% of the time. "Revival" is used about 1,020 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.55% | 995 | 7,389 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.08% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,020 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "revival": gothic revival ♦ pentecostal revival ♦ revival meeting ♦ revival style ♦ the revival of learning. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "revival": mini-revival. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "revival"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rivendosje (rearrangement, reclamation, reconstruction, recovery, redress, re-establishment, rehabilitation, reinstatement, renewal, restoration), ringjallje (reappearance, regeneration, renaissance, renascence, resurrection, revivification), rigjallërim (resurgence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نهضة (awakening, rebirth, renaissance, renewal, rising), تجديد (innovation, modernization, newness, novelty, rebuilding, reconditioning, regeneration, rejuvenation, renewal, renovation, restoration), تجدد (be renewed, modernization, regenerate, regeneration, rejuvenate, rejuvenation, renaissance, renewal, renovation, repeat, resurrection), ترويح (relief), صحوة دينية, صحوة (renaissance), الإنعاش (welfare), إنتعاش (exhilaration, recovery, resuscitation, swell), إنبعاث (emission, rebirth, resurrection), إحياء (animation, raise, rebirth, regeneration, renovation, restoration, resuscitation), إجتماع لصحوة دينية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съживяване (renascense, renewal, renovation, resurgence, resurrection, revivification), сектантска кампания, религиозна кампания, възраждане (palingenesis, rebirth, renaissance, renascence, renewal), възобновяване (resurrection), нова постановка, подем (boom, progress, upgrade, uplift, upsurge, upswing), идване в съзнание. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 复兴 (revive, revived, reviving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obrození (renascence), oživení zájmu, nové uvedení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | genoplivning (emergency life support, resuscitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | herstel van de markt (rally of the market, revival of the market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تمدید (Extension), تقویت (Abet, Amplification, Fortification, Fuel, Nutrition, Reinforcement, Support), تجدید (Renewal, Repeat, Repetition, Restoration, Resumption), احیا (Reclamation, Reduction, Vigil), استقرارمجدد (Restoration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jälleenelpyminen, herätys (awakening, waking), henkiinherättäminen (restoration, resuscitation), elvytys (recovery, restoration), elpyminen (recovery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reprise (recapture, recovery, renewal, repeat, repetition, reprise, resumed, resumption, retrieval, rework). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wiederbelebung (resurrection, resuscitation, revitalization), Erweckung (arousal, awakening, raising, resurrection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναβίωση (resuscitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תקומה (existence, rebirth, recovery, resistance, resurrection, stand, uprising), תחיה (rebirth, regeneration, renaissance, renascence, renewal), התחיות (rebirth, renaiscence), הפרחה (fertilization, flowering, flying, spreading), החיאה (recovery, resuscitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feléledés (resurrection, resuscitation), újjászületés (greening, palingenesis, rebirth, regeneration, rejuvenation, renascence), új életre kelés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kebangkitan kembali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risveglio (awakening), ripristino (restoration, retrieval), ripresa (rally, recovery, renewal, restart, restarting, resumption, shot, take, upturn), rinascita (rebirth, renaissance, resurgence), rigurgito (regurgiotation, regurgitation), rianimazione (resuscitation, reviving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | リノレン酸 (liberty, Libya, linolenic acid, Liverpool Sound, rebound, rehabilitation, rehearsal, republic, reverse, reverse roll, reverse turn, reversibel fabric, reversible, reversible coat, revised edtition, revive shop), リン酸 (loose, loose-leaf, louver, phosphoric acid, red, redhead, roof, roof garden, roof rack, rookie, root, roots, rouble, rouge, route, route sales, router, routine, routing, to have roots in), 復興 (reconstruction, renaissance), 復活 (restoration), 復古 (restoration), 再興 (restoration, resuscitation), 再現 (reappearance, reproduction, return), 再燃 (recurrence, resuscitation), 中興 (restoration, resurgence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リバイバル , リヴァイヴァル , さいねん (recurrence, resuscitation), さいこう (crushing ore, highest, lighting, mining, pore, reconsideration, reinvestigation, restoration, resuscitation, second proof, supreme, the most), さいげん (bounds, end, limits, reappearance, reproduction, return), ふっかつ (restoration), ふっこう (reconstruction, renaissance, restoration of diplomatic relations, return flight or voyage, return to school), ふっこ (abdominal cavity, restoration), ちゅうこう (12-2 a.m., cast steel, daylight, loyalty and filial piety, metal caster, middle watch, restoration, resurgence, the mean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 리바이벌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aavioghey (enlivenment, rally, regenerate, renaissance, resurrect, resurrection, resuscitation, revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evivalray restauração (recession, reconstruction, recruitment, rehabilitation, renovation, reparation, restoration, resurrection), restabelecimento (rally, recovery, recruitment, recuperation, re-establishing, re-establishment, reinstatement, repair, resettlement, restoration, retrieval), renovação (innovator, reconstruction, regeneration, renewal, renovation, reproduction, restoration), renascimento (regeneration, renaissance, renascence), reflorescimento. (various references) renaştere (rebirth, renaissance, renascence, renewal, resurgence), reluare (continuation, renewal, repeat, repetition, resumption), relansare, redeşteptare (reawakening, resurgence), reînviere (resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation), dezmorţire, înviere (rebirth, resurrection). (various references) возрождение (new birth, reappearance, rebirth, regeneration, renaissance, renascence, renascense, renewal, resurgence, second birth), возобновление (continuation, recommencement, renewal, resumption). (various references) ponovno izvođenje, oživljenje (resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation), buđenje (awakening, evocation, rousing, wakening). (various references) resurgimiento (resurgence), resucitación (resuscitation), restablecimiento (pickup, pullout, recovery, recuperation, re-establishing, re-establishment, resetting, resettlement, restoration), reposición (replacement, replenishment, rerun), renacimiento (rebirth, renaissance, renascence), reanimación (emergency life support, resuscitation), despertamiento (awakening). (various references) väckelse, återupplivning av. (various references) yeniden yayınlama, yeniden gösterme, yeniden canlandırma, uyanış (awakening, renaissance, renascense, shake up, wakening, waking up), diriltme (resurrection, resuscitation, vitalization), dirilme (coming to life, resuscitation, rise), dinin yeniden canlanması, canlanma (boom, coming to life, rebirth, refreshment, renaissance, renascense, resurgence), ayıltma, ayılma (sobering). (various references) galkynys. (various references) відродження (reappearance, rebirth, regeneration, renaissance, renascence, resurgence, revivification, second born), відновлення сил (recuperation), пробудження (arousal, awakening, wakening, waking), повенення до життя. (various references) sự phục hưng, sự làm sống lại (resurrection, resuscitation, revivification), sự gây lại niềm tin. (various references) diwygiad (reform, reformation), adfywiad, adeni (afterbirth, regenerate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "revival": revivalism, revivalisms, revivalist, revivalistic, revivalists, revivals. (additional references) | |
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"Revival" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raiva, Revava, revital, revivel, Rizivi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "revival" (pronounced rivī"vul or rēvī"vul) |
| 5 | -v ī" v u l | survival. |
| 4 | -ī" v u l | archival, arrival, rival. |
| 3 | -v u l | anvil, approval, arval, bedevil, bevel, carnival, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, evil, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, interval, larval, level, marvel, medieval, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, primeval, Ravel, removal, retrieval, revel, servile, shovel, shrivel, swivel, travel, uncivil, unravel, upheaval, weevil. |
| 5 | -v ī" v u l | survival. |
| 4 | -ī" v u l | archival, arrival, rival. |
| 3 | -v u l | anvil, approval, arval, bedevil, bevel, carnival, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, evil, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, interval, larval, level, marvel, medieval, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, primeval, Ravel, removal, retrieval, revel, servile, shovel, shrivel, swivel, travel, uncivil, unravel, upheaval, weevil. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-r-v-v" | |
-2 letters: aiver, alive, ariel, ervil, laver, liver, livre, ravel, rival, valve, varve, velar, viler, viral. | |
-3 letters: aril, aver, earl, evil, ilea, lair, lari, lave, lear, leva, liar, lier, lira, lire, live, rail, rale, rave, real, rial, riel, rile, rive, vail, vair, vale, veal, veil, vela, vera, vial, vier, vile, virl, viva, vive. | |
-4 letters: ail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-r-v-v" | |
+1 letter: revivals, trivalve. | |
+2 letters: revivable, trivalves. | |
+3 letters: aversively, overlavish, revivalism, revivalist, survivable. | |
+4 letters: overvaluing, pervasively, privatively, revivalisms, revivalists. | |
+5 letters: derivatively, revivalistic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 69 76 61 6C |
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