RESURRECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Resurrection mean? 

• RESURRECTION (noun)
  The noun RESURRECTION has 2 senses:

1. (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion

2. a revival from inactivity and disuse

  Familiarity information: RESURRECTION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESURRECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

Christ's Resurrection; Resurrection; Resurrection of Christ

Instance hypernyms:

miracle (a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent)

Domain category:

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A revival from inactivity and disuse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

it produced a resurrection of hope

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

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

Derivation:

resurrect (cause to become alive again)

 Context examples 

“This is a resurrection. Where in the world did you come from?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked at her quickly, while across his face shot a haunting expression, the ghost of some buried misery achieving swift resurrection.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read:—Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, on July, 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Why, my dear fellow, you will live for ever. You are a god, and God cannot be killed. Cooky cannot hurt you. You are sure of your resurrection. What’s there to be afraid of? You have eternal life before you.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Now there is a solemn hush, which we have brought from home with what is resting in the mould; and while we stand bareheaded, I hear the voice of the clergyman, sounding remote in the open air, and yet distinct and plain, saying: I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I've often heard him say masel' that he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven, an' he didn't want to addle where she was.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)