renewal

English

Etymology

From renew +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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Noun

renewal (countable and uncountable, plural renewals)

1. The act of renewing.
   • 1953 September, “Restoring British Permanent Way to Prewar Standards”, in Railway Magazine, page 587:

     The renewal of track by cranes and special tracklaying machines which lift out entire 60 ft. lengths of old track and lay in pre-assembled 60 ft. lengths of new, allows the process of renewal to proceed at a considerably faster rate than possible by older methods.

2. (fencing) An offensive action made immediately after a parried one.

Synonyms

• renew

Derived terms

• Markov renewal process
• nonrenewal
• renewal theory
• urban renewal

Translations

act of renewing

• Azerbaijani: bərpa, yeniləşmə
• Bulgarian: обновяване n (obnovjavane), подновяване (bg) n (podnovjavane)
• Catalan: renovació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 更新 (zh) (gēngxīn)

• Czech: obnovení n, obnova (cs) f
• Esperanto: renoviĝo
• Finnish: uudistaminen (fi), uusiminen (fi)
• French: renouvellement (fr) m, renouvèlement (fr) m (alternative spelling)
• Georgian: აღდგენა (aɣdgena), განახლება (ganaxleba)
• German: Erneuerung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌾𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (inniujiþa)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀνακαίνωσις f (anakaínōsis), ἀνανέωσις f (ananéōsis)

• Irish: athnuachan f
• Japanese: 更新 (ja) (こうしん, kōshin)
• Latin: renovātiō f
• Macedonian: обнову́вање n (obnovúvanje)
• Malayalam: പുതുക്കൽ (ml) (putukkal)
• Manx: aachiaddey m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fornyelse (no) m

• Occitan: renovelament m, renovèl m
• Persian: تجدید (fa) (tajdid), نوگان (nowgân)
• Polish: odnowienie (pl) n, odnowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: renovação (pt) f, renovamento m
• Russian: обновле́ние (ru) n (obnovlénije), возрожде́ние (ru) n (vozroždénije) (revival), продле́ние (ru) n (prodlénije) (prolongation, extension, extension)
• Spanish: renovación (es) f
• Turkish: yenileme (tr)
• Ukrainian: оно́влення n (onóvlennja), відно́влення n (vidnóvlennja)

offensive action made immediately after a parried one

• Finnish: toisto (fi), uusinta (fi)