Definitions for revenant

revenant rev·e·nant

Spelling: [rev-uh-nuh nt]
IPA: /ˈrɛv ə nənt/

Revenant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in revenant (aeennrtv).

Definitions for revenant

noun

  1. a person who returns.
  2. a person who returns as a spirit after death; ghost.

Origin of revenant

1820-30; French: ghost, noun use of present participle of revenir to return, equivalent to re- re- + ven(ir) to come (Latin venīre) + -ant -ant

Examples for revenant

Now, when she thought of him at all, it was as of some revenant of kindly countenance from a half-forgotten dream.

“It might account for her seeing this revenant cavalier in any passenger,” said Lauzun, not satisfied yet.

But there is no doubt that the majority of us would prefer encountering a human rather than a four-footed "revenant."

Like that shadowy majesty of Denmark, our dramatic author was a "revenant."

It is by the strength of the revenant, by the return of his soul into his body?

You are now one of us; a revenant, even as I, and to live you must feed on the living.

Somehow, the idea of a revenant Beta curve didn't make up for the basic loss.

That is true, Monsieur; he has been often taken for a revenant.

The Jena was a remarkably fine and fast vessel, and, as the revenant privateer, had formerly cruised long and very successfully.

No one present, then no revenant or spook, or astral body, or hallucination: what's in a name?

Word Value for revenant
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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