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Noun: Renaissance  ri'neys(aa)ns
  1. The revival of learning and culture
    - rebirth, Renascence
     
  2. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
    - Renascence

Type of: age, historic period, resurgence, revitalisation [Brit], revitalization, revival, revivification

Part of: history

Encyclopedia: Renaissance