say it: ree-in-kahr-NAY-shuhn
reincarnation is a noun meaning "embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)
“his reincarnation as a lion”
a second or new birth
the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reincarnation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.