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RENASCENCE

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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 ("Renascence" is a kind of...):

resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Derivation:

renascent (rising again as to new life and vigor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A second or new birth

Synonyms:

rebirth; reincarnation; renascence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("renascence" is a kind of...):

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity (the event of being born)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renascence"):

transmigration (the passing of a soul into another body after death)

cycle of rebirth ((Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms)

Sense 3

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 "Renascence"):

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 ("Renascence" is a part of...):

history (the aggregate of past events)

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