RENAISSANCE Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

renaissance

noun

ˈre-nə-ˌsän(t)s

Definition of renaissance

as in millennium

a period of high artistic or cultural development the 19th-century literary renaissance that prompted people to refer to Boston as the Athens of America

Synonyms & Similar Words

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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

dark age

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of renaissance Fermin Lopez, Gavi and Alejandro Balde were also regulars, while Eric Garcia has enjoyed a renaissance under Flick. — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Few acts from their class survived, or thrived, but Duran Duran has enjoyed a rare, late-career renaissance. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026 And Logitech’s own renaissance would not have been possible without rethinking its approach to the export powerhouse that strikes fear into the hearts of many Western manufacturers. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Since the American cocktail renaissance arrived in the 2000s, pros who run top-of-class bars tend to approach their work with a precise sense of history. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for renaissance

Recent Examples of Synonyms for renaissance

Noun

More importantly, bonds are also almost certainly bigger than the traditional banking system—and probably crossed that mark sometime in the past decade, for the first time since both were invented a millennium ago.

— Robin Wigglesworth, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Further excavations at Hattusa could potentially reveal additional fragments and allow researchers to piece together more of this ancient copy of an agreement that helped end generations of conflict more than three millennia ago.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

The period is 2006, when the golden age of streamable content is barely a speck on the media horizon.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
There are plenty of scientists, industry researchers, and executives who believe the risks are overblown, and the technology is the way toward a new golden age.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

At its zenith, the collection of buildings housed world-famous galleries and artist exhibitions that made the gritty section of Santa Monica an unlikely contemporary art capital.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Eventing, at the best of times, is an adrenaline junky’s zenith; a game for the preternaturally brave and ineffably technically minded.

— Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of zenith

Noun

That notion reached its pinnacle after the Chiefs beat the Bills 32-29 in the AFC Championship Game but was punctured by their 40-22 clobbering at the hands of the Eagles in Super Bowl LIX.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
These pioneers fully expected that machines would one day surpass humans—that AGI would become ASI, or artificial superintelligence—because there’s no reason to expect that humans are the pinnacle of intelligence.

— George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026