Definition of revenant in English:

revenant

noun ˈrɛv(ə)nənt-nənt

A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.
he was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant
Example sentencesExamples
- The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism.
- Yisrael Medad asks that we call the Jewish settlers in the West Bank revenants, as befits ‘persons who have returned after a long hiatus to their ancestral homes’.
- In one of them, two shamans argue about who is the strongest, in another, they argue about inflicting evil on another person in the form of revenants as revenge for grievances, and in a third, about killing with poison.
- In parts of south-eastern and central Europe, the experience also has associations with revenants and members of the living dead such as the vampire.
- She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants.
- Now the revenants have gained fame again in the cult TV programme ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
- On the other hand, revenants genuinely accepted as the spirits of the dead also appeared.
- It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons.
- Due to the circumstances of their possible deaths, arguably, these women are indeed revenants, even though for most of the novel, they are as static as their Ruby neighbors.
- For instance, long fingernails, or sometimes no nails at all, are characteristic of vampires, revenants, and other beings of ‘undead’ status.
- Finding nothing comparable in older historians, he concluded that such revenants were a feature peculiar to his own times, and commented that he could have cited many more instances if he had wanted to.
- He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants.
- On the other hand, vampires and werewolves are allocated an entry, and so are revenants, on the basis of Scandinavian material.
- She has interpreted some stories in her repertoire in accordance with her Christian faith, notably stories about revenants, evil spirits, and magic.
- Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant.
- Comedies about revenants are a relatively recent English subgenre.
- The most immediately striking feature of both sets of tales is that all William's revenants and many of those at Byland are not ghosts in the usual sense of that word but ‘walking dead,’ corpses that have literally emerged from their graves.
- At a couple of points he mentions how in Protestant realms the dead were transformed into dangerous, marginal figures, yet he does not pursue this theme to see how it may have related to fear of revenants or nocturnal witch sabbaths.
- So a revenant returns only to steal away again with another?
- He heard the despair in her voice, as if she was willing the revenants of her loved ones to rise from the icy grave and join her in the realm of the living.
Synonyms
apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image

Origin

Early 19th century: French, literally 'coming back', present participle (used as a noun) of revenir.

Definition of revenant in US English:

revenant

noun-nənt

A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.
he was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant
Example sentencesExamples
- The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism.
- The most immediately striking feature of both sets of tales is that all William's revenants and many of those at Byland are not ghosts in the usual sense of that word but ‘walking dead,’ corpses that have literally emerged from their graves.
- It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons.
- She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants.
- In parts of south-eastern and central Europe, the experience also has associations with revenants and members of the living dead such as the vampire.
- Yisrael Medad asks that we call the Jewish settlers in the West Bank revenants, as befits ‘persons who have returned after a long hiatus to their ancestral homes’.
- Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant.
- Comedies about revenants are a relatively recent English subgenre.
- He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants.
- Now the revenants have gained fame again in the cult TV programme ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
- So a revenant returns only to steal away again with another?
- Due to the circumstances of their possible deaths, arguably, these women are indeed revenants, even though for most of the novel, they are as static as their Ruby neighbors.
- He heard the despair in her voice, as if she was willing the revenants of her loved ones to rise from the icy grave and join her in the realm of the living.
- On the other hand, vampires and werewolves are allocated an entry, and so are revenants, on the basis of Scandinavian material.
- At a couple of points he mentions how in Protestant realms the dead were transformed into dangerous, marginal figures, yet he does not pursue this theme to see how it may have related to fear of revenants or nocturnal witch sabbaths.
- On the other hand, revenants genuinely accepted as the spirits of the dead also appeared.
- For instance, long fingernails, or sometimes no nails at all, are characteristic of vampires, revenants, and other beings of ‘undead’ status.
- In one of them, two shamans argue about who is the strongest, in another, they argue about inflicting evil on another person in the form of revenants as revenge for grievances, and in a third, about killing with poison.
- She has interpreted some stories in her repertoire in accordance with her Christian faith, notably stories about revenants, evil spirits, and magic.
- Finding nothing comparable in older historians, he concluded that such revenants were a feature peculiar to his own times, and commented that he could have cited many more instances if he had wanted to.
Synonyms
apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image

Origin

Early 19th century: French, literally ‘coming back’, present participle (used as a noun) of revenir.

单词	revenant
释义	Definition of revenant in English: revenant noun ˈrɛv(ə)nənt-nənt A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. he was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant Example sentencesExamples The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism. Yisrael Medad asks that we call the Jewish settlers in the West Bank revenants, as befits ‘persons who have returned after a long hiatus to their ancestral homes’. In one of them, two shamans argue about who is the strongest, in another, they argue about inflicting evil on another person in the form of revenants as revenge for grievances, and in a third, about killing with poison. In parts of south-eastern and central Europe, the experience also has associations with revenants and members of the living dead such as the vampire. She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants. Now the revenants have gained fame again in the cult TV programme ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. On the other hand, revenants genuinely accepted as the spirits of the dead also appeared. It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons. Due to the circumstances of their possible deaths, arguably, these women are indeed revenants, even though for most of the novel, they are as static as their Ruby neighbors. For instance, long fingernails, or sometimes no nails at all, are characteristic of vampires, revenants, and other beings of ‘undead’ status. Finding nothing comparable in older historians, he concluded that such revenants were a feature peculiar to his own times, and commented that he could have cited many more instances if he had wanted to. He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants. On the other hand, vampires and werewolves are allocated an entry, and so are revenants, on the basis of Scandinavian material. She has interpreted some stories in her repertoire in accordance with her Christian faith, notably stories about revenants, evil spirits, and magic. Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant. Comedies about revenants are a relatively recent English subgenre. The most immediately striking feature of both sets of tales is that all William's revenants and many of those at Byland are not ghosts in the usual sense of that word but ‘walking dead,’ corpses that have literally emerged from their graves. At a couple of points he mentions how in Protestant realms the dead were transformed into dangerous, marginal figures, yet he does not pursue this theme to see how it may have related to fear of revenants or nocturnal witch sabbaths. So a revenant returns only to steal away again with another? He heard the despair in her voice, as if she was willing the revenants of her loved ones to rise from the icy grave and join her in the realm of the living. Synonyms apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image Origin Early 19th century: French, literally 'coming back', present participle (used as a noun) of revenir. Definition of revenant in US English: revenant noun-nənt A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. he was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant Example sentencesExamples The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism. The most immediately striking feature of both sets of tales is that all William's revenants and many of those at Byland are not ghosts in the usual sense of that word but ‘walking dead,’ corpses that have literally emerged from their graves. It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons. She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants. In parts of south-eastern and central Europe, the experience also has associations with revenants and members of the living dead such as the vampire. Yisrael Medad asks that we call the Jewish settlers in the West Bank revenants, as befits ‘persons who have returned after a long hiatus to their ancestral homes’. Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant. Comedies about revenants are a relatively recent English subgenre. He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants. Now the revenants have gained fame again in the cult TV programme ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. So a revenant returns only to steal away again with another? Due to the circumstances of their possible deaths, arguably, these women are indeed revenants, even though for most of the novel, they are as static as their Ruby neighbors. He heard the despair in her voice, as if she was willing the revenants of her loved ones to rise from the icy grave and join her in the realm of the living. On the other hand, vampires and werewolves are allocated an entry, and so are revenants, on the basis of Scandinavian material. At a couple of points he mentions how in Protestant realms the dead were transformed into dangerous, marginal figures, yet he does not pursue this theme to see how it may have related to fear of revenants or nocturnal witch sabbaths. On the other hand, revenants genuinely accepted as the spirits of the dead also appeared. For instance, long fingernails, or sometimes no nails at all, are characteristic of vampires, revenants, and other beings of ‘undead’ status. In one of them, two shamans argue about who is the strongest, in another, they argue about inflicting evil on another person in the form of revenants as revenge for grievances, and in a third, about killing with poison. She has interpreted some stories in her repertoire in accordance with her Christian faith, notably stories about revenants, evil spirits, and magic. Finding nothing comparable in older historians, he concluded that such revenants were a feature peculiar to his own times, and commented that he could have cited many more instances if he had wanted to. Synonyms apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image Origin Early 19th century: French, literally ‘coming back’, present participle (used as a noun) of revenir.
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