revival

Noun

revival (countable and uncountable, plural revivals)

1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
2. 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.2021 April 20, Rafael Behr, “The future of the United Kingdom depends on a Labour revival in England”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2021
3. Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
   • post-punk revival
   • The Met's recent revival of Jürgen Flimm's powerful production of Beethoven's “Fidelio,” another highlight of the 2000-1 season, was a similar letdown. But revivals of great productions don't always have to be disappointments, as the Met's current presentation of Poulenc's “Dialogues des...2002 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Seducer In a Revival Of a Revival”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 May 2025
4. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
   • the revival of hot pants
   • Kat Frey, a 25-year-old copywriter who lives in Brooklyn, picked up the habit last year. “We’re having a very sexy and ethereal 1980s revival, and smoking is part of that,” she said. “A lot of people I know are posting pictures doing it. I’m doing it. It’s having its moment for sure.”2022 January 12, John Ortved, quoting Kat Frey, “That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022
5. 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.2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin
   • This book offers a view into a growing movement of Islamic revival as it is taking place in the small, historically Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the northern Himalayan edge of the Indian subcontinent.2012, Megan Adamson Sijapati, Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation, Routledge, →ISBN
   1. A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
6. Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
   • the revival of a debt barred by limitation
   • the revival of a revoked will
7. Revivification, as of a metal.
8. Type of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.