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Renaissance Ren·ais·sance

Spelling: [ren-uh-sahns, -zahns, -sahn<

IPA: /ˌrɛn əˈsɑns, -ˈzɑns, -ˈsɑ̃s, ˈrɛn əˌsɑns, -ˌzɑns, -ˌsɑ̃s; especially British rɪˈneɪ səns/

Renaissance is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 650 anagrams from letters in Renaissance (aaceeinnrss).

Definitions for Renaissance

noun

1. the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
2. the forms and treatments in art used during this period.
3. (sometimes lowercase) any similar revival in the world of art and learning.
4. (lowercase) a renewal of life, vigor, interest, etc.; rebirth; revival:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or suggestive of the European Renaissance of the 14th through the 17th centuries:
2. noting or pertaining to the group of architectural styles existing in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries as adaptations of ancient Roman architectural details or compositional forms to contemporary uses, characterized at first by the free and inventive use of isolated details, later by the more imitative use of whole orders and compositional arrangements, with great attention to the formulation of compositional rules after the precepts of Vitruvius and the precedents of existing ruins, and at all periods by an emphasis on symmetry, exact mathematical relationships between parts, and a general effect of simplicity and repose.
3. noting or pertaining to any of the various adaptations of this group of styles in foreign architecture characterized typically by the playful or grotesque use of isolated details in more or less traditional buildings.
4. noting or pertaining to the furnishings or decorations of the Renaissance, in which motifs of classical derivation frequently appear.

Origin of Renaissance

1830-40; French, Middle French: rebirth, equivalent to renaiss- (stem of renaistre to be born again Latin renāscī; re- re- + nāscī to be born) + -ance Examples for Renaissance

The Renaissance classics may be studied in the works of Woodward and Laurie.

The writers of the Renaissance directly imitated the ancients.

The cardinals had such a bad reputation that the very term “cardinal” became an insult in Renaissance Rome.

After brief runs in community theater and college, she hit the road with a Renaissance fair troupe.

There has been something of a Biba Renaissance in recent years.

It was a topic of interest to the scholars of the Renaissance.

But the flaws and peccadilloes of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo pale beside the misdeeds of patrons and pontiffs.

On the other side is the "Gate of Honor," a good specimen of the Renaissance.

With the beginning of the Renaissance the Middle Ages came to an end.

It may not be a story the Vatican wants told, but such nasty behavior is also a part of the Renaissance.