Other forms: resurrections
A resurrection is a rising from the dead, or a revival of something. The Resurrection, a career resurrection, a resurrection of the old plan.
With a capital letter it means the rising of Christ, which is the whole basis of Easter. The figurative use is common in sport and politics, where a resurrection means a comeback nobody expected.
1nounresurrectionA rising from the dead, or a revival of something.
“The film tells the story of the resurrection of a dying seaside town.”
resurrection is a rising.
Latin resurrectio comes from resurgere, to rise again, from re plus surgere, to rise.
Latin
resurrēctiōnem
Old French
resurrection
Anglo-Norman
resurrectiun
Middle English
resurreccioun,resurrection
English, today
resurrection
Built from
From Middle English resurreccioun,resurrection, from Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), and their etymon Latin resurrēctiōnem (accusative of resurrēctiō) from Latin resurgō (“to rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“to rise”). by surface analysis, resurrect + -ion. Displaced native ǣrist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA