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say it: reh-stur-AY-shuhn
restoration is a noun meaning "the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685". It carries 7 recorded senses.
the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685
the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
getting something back again
“upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
the state of being restored to its former good condition
“the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house”
some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
“the restoration looked exactly like the original”
a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
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 restoration 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.