MEANING
1. Birth into another life after death, according to beliefs about the continuation of existence.
2. A renewal of life, activity, or importance after decline or a period of apparent ending.
3. A profound renewal of a person’s spiritual life or sense of inner purpose.
Use it for
describing a belief in another life after death; discussing a cycle of lives; contrasting rebirth with permanent extinctionNames renewed life or vitality after an ending, adding a counterpoint to irreversible loss rather than another synonym for death. Writing functions: Death / Mortality.
Words that belong together
- belief in rebirth
- a cycle of rebirth
- death and rebirth
On the page
Her belief in rebirth changed the way she understood her brother’s death.
His dreams convinced him that rebirth had carried him back to the same village.
The return of birds marked the garden’s slow rebirth.
She called the move a rebirth, though she took every old photograph with her.
The vigil brought him no vision, only a quiet sense of spiritual rebirth.
Word forms
- Base
- rebirth
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable noun: a rebirth; rebirth; plural rebirths. Distinguish reincarnation from figurative renewal; neither sense is an ordinary inflection of birth. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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