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RENAISSANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The revival of learning and culture
Synonyms:
rebirth; Renaissance; Renascence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Renaissance" is a kind of...):
resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification (bringing again into activity and prominence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
Synonyms:
Renaissance; Renascence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
Meronyms (parts of "Renaissance"):
High Renaissance (the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content)
quattrocento (the 15th century in Italian art and literature)
Italian Renaissance (the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance)
Holonyms ("Renaissance" is a part of...):
history (the aggregate of past events)
