resurrection

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
2. (Judaism, countable, uncountable) The general resurrection.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A miraculous comeback or revival (e.g., of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
4. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).

Synonyms

revival

resuscitation

rehabilitation

reviving

rebirth

reorganisation

reorganization

restoration

resurgence

revitalization

rising

rising again

rising from the dead

spike

return to life

rise again

reanimation

raising from the dead

rearrangement

recovering

regeneration

rejuvenation

Translations

résurrection

Auferstehung

resurrezione

resurrección

ressurreição

Wiederauferstehung

opstanding

risurrezione

verrijzenis

herrijzenis

wederopstanding

resurrecció

ανάσταση

Wiederaufleben

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, from Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), from Late Latin resurrectionem (accusative of resurrectiō) from Latin resurgō (“I rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“I rise”). Displaced native Old English ǣrist.