resurrection Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion
    Resurrection of Christ; Christ's Resurrection.
  2. noun a revival from inactivity and disuse
    • it produced a resurrection of hope

WordNet

Res`ur*rec"tion noun
Etymology
F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source.
Definitions
  1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
  2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
    Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth. Milton.
  3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
    In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Matt. xxii. 30.
  4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
    I am the resurrection, and the life. John xi. 25.

Webster 1913