reversion

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of reverting something.
2. (countable, uncountable) The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
3. (countable, uncountable) The fact of being turned the reverse way.
4. (countable, uncountable) The action of turning something the reverse way.
5. (countable, uncountable) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
6. (countable, uncountable) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
7. (countable, uncountable) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
8. (countable, uncountable) The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
9. (countable, uncountable) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
10. (countable, uncountable) A sum payable on a person's death.
11. (countable, proscribed, uncountable, usually) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.

Synonyms

atavism

inversion

reverting

reverse

throwback

regress

regression

relapse

retroversion

return

reversal

relapsing

lapsing

backsliding

recovery

reverter

turnabout

turnaround

retrogression

lapse

reversed

reverse direction

reversing

reversionary

turn

turning

turning back

version

reverse course

interlingual rendition

sale and leaseback

reverse motion

space inversion

chartered back

back

🔙

back-kick

translation

backward

comeback

coming back

conversion

fall back

going back

interchange

inverse

involution

leaseback

opposite

playback

recurrence

Translations

retour

terugkeer

reversión

reversão

réversion

Umpolung

Umkehrung

reversione

atavismo

erfrecht

atavisme

Rückbesinnung

salt enrere

Umkehr

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈvɜːʒ(ə)n̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revertō. By surface analysis, revert + -sion.