revivalnoun/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯vəl/

• 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.
• 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 Carmélites” makes clear.
• 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.”
• 5

  lifestylereligionRenewed 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.
  • 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.
• 6

  ChristianitylifestylereligionRenewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

• 7

  lawRestoration 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
• 8

  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesRevivification, as of a metal.