renaissance

See also: Renaissance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French renaissance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈneɪs(ə)ns/, /ɹəˈneɪsɑːns/, /ɹəˈneɪsɒ̃(n)s/, /ˌɹɛnəˈsɒ̃(n)s/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnəˌsɑns/, /ˌɹɛnəˈsɑns/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

renaissance (plural renaissances)

1. A rebirth or revival.
   • 1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:

     On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.

   • 2026 January 30, Judy Berman, “Catherine O’Hara Portrayed the Vain and Delusional With a Radical Lack of Vanity”, in TIME‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 February 2026:

     The news of her death is shocking, in part, because she was in the midst of a late-career renaissance. It seemed possible that we would see her continue to play some of these characters, not to mention a raft of new ones, for another generation.

2. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Renaissance.

Derived terms

• greynaissance
• renaissance man

Translations

rebirth or revival

• Azerbaijani: dirçəliş
• Belarusian: адраджэ́нне n (adradžénnje)
• Bulgarian: възраждане (bg) n (văzraždane)
• Catalan: renaixement (ca)
• Cebuano: pagkabalik
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 復興 / 复兴 (zh) (fùxīng)

• Danish: renæssance c
• German: Wiedergeburt (de) f
• Hungarian: újjászületés (hu)
• Italian: rinascimento (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 復興、再生
• Ligurian: rinascimento m
• Macedonian: пре́родба f (prérodba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: renessanse m

  Nynorsk: renessanse m

• Polish: odrodzenie (pl) n, renesans (pl) m
• Russian: возрожде́ние (ru) n (vozroždénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-bheothachadh m
• Spanish: renacimiento (es) m
• Tamil: மறுமலர்ச்சி (maṟumalarcci)
• Ukrainian: відро́дження n (vidródžennja)
• Vietnamese: phục hưng (vi)

Renaissance — see Renaissance

Anagrams

• Necessarian, necessarian

French

Etymology

From renaître +‎ -ance or re- +‎ naissance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃s/ ~ /ʁə.ne.sɑ̃s/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

renaissance f (plural renaissances)

1. rebirth, renaissance

Descendants

• → Dutch: Renaissance
  • → Indonesian: Renaisans
• → English: Renaissance
• → German: Renaissance
• → Persian: رنسانس (ronesâns)
• → Turkish: Rönesans

See also

• Renaissance

Further reading

• “renaissance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• encasernais, enracinasse