REVENANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revenant mean? 

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

1. a person who returns after a lengthy absence

2. someone who has returned from the dead

  Familiarity information: REVENANT used as a noun is rare.

• REVENANT (adjective)
  The adjective REVENANT has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or typical of a revenant

2. coming back

  Familiarity information: REVENANT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVENANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who returns after a lengthy absence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who has returned from the dead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

ghost (the visible disembodied soul of a dead person)

• REVENANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or typical of a revenant

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

revenant shrieks and groans

Pertainym:

revenant (someone who has returned from the dead)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coming back

Synonyms:

recurring; revenant

Context example:

a revenant ghost

Similar:

continual (recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)