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

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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

dark age

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of renaissance This milestone underscores China's rapid expansion, not a broad global nuclear renaissance. — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 As its summers grow hotter, Europe offers Chinese appliance makers a potential renaissance. — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 30 July 2026 In the last few years, a slew of secondhand trends have come and gone, from the Y2K renaissance, to an Indie sleaze’s revival (which never quite took off), to the recent burst of 1990s minimalism à la Calvin Klein and Prada. — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 30 July 2026 Today, everyone from the Economist to the New York Times has heralded the coming psychedelics renaissance, as hallucinogens begin to gain greater cultural, medical and commercial acceptability. — Literary Hub, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for renaissance

Recent Examples of Synonyms for renaissance

Noun

The ultimate turn-of-the-millennium heartthrob, Erik von Detten played Josh Bryant, the school’s resident popular hottie.

— Madeline Boardman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
The butterflies have been making this migration for as long as 20 millennia, once finding paths to and from the fields gouged out by glaciers retreating with the spring during the last Ice Age.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

Civilizations could have risen to their zenith and crumbled in the time our micrometeoroid spent traversing the unfeeling expanse of interplanetary space, but its demise lasted but a fraction of a second.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 July 2026
There was a time when the odd chart slot and a feature on the soundtrack of the latest FIFA game would mark the mainstream zenith of a breakthrough junglist.

— Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026