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Risorgimento

Risorgimento proper noun: the political and military movement that led to the unification of Italy in the 19th century.

Proper noun

Risorgimento

  1. (historical) The political and military movement that led to the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
  2. Renewal, revival, renaissance.
    • [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento...2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times

Origin of Risorgimento

Borrowed from Italian risorgimento (“revival”).

Questions about Risorgimento

What does Risorgimento mean?
Risorgimento means the political and military movement that led to the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
What part of speech is Risorgimento?
Risorgimento is a proper noun.

Words near Risorgimento in the dictionary

  1. risograph
  2. risographs
  3. risoluto
  4. Rison
  5. risoni
  6. Risorgimento
  7. risorgimentos
  8. risorial
  9. risorii
  10. risorius
  11. Risos

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