MEANING
1. The renewal or improvement of a place or system, especially after decline or damage.
2. The regrowth or replacement of lost or damaged parts of a living organism.
Use it for
describing renewal after urban or institutional decline; evaluating a program intended to restore activity; distinguishing rebuilding from continuous expansionDistinguishes renewal of a place or system from biological regrowth. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- urban regeneration
- economic regeneration
- regeneration of a district
On the page
The plan treats urban regeneration as a social project rather than a property-development exercise alone.
The report asks which residents benefit from the district’s regeneration.
The review distinguishes tissue regeneration from repair that leaves scar tissue.
The term regeneration refers here to biological regrowth, not urban redevelopment.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- regeneration
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. Regenerations can distinguish separate processes or cycles. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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