revival

Other forms of revival

plural

revivals·

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.

Questions about revival

What does revival mean?

revival means "bringing again into activity and prominence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revival?

revival has 3 syllables: re-vi-val. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/.

What is another word for revival?

Close synonyms include resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification, revival meeting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is revival a common word?

revival is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with revival?

1 word rhymes with revival. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.