revival

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   bringing again into activity and prominence

   the revival of trade

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.

   post-punk revival

4. 4
   noun

   Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

   the revival of hot pants

5. 5
   noun

   Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.

   the revival of a debt barred by limitation

7. 7
   noun

   an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion

8. 8
   noun

   The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

Etymology

From revive + -al.