RENAISSANCES Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

renaissances

noun

plural of renaissance

as in millennia

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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dark ages

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Recent Examples of renaissances The pair experienced career renaissances with the success of their sitcom Schitt's Creek, which ran from 2015 to 2020. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for renaissances

Noun

Nearly three millennia after audiences first heard these stories, Nolan’s The Odyssey has huge expectations.

— Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
These properties have enabled the likes of the Pantheon, ancient Roman aqueducts, and even parts of the Colosseum to survive two millennia, while some Brutalist buildings from the 1960s that were made from modern concrete are crumbling.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

Definition of millennia

Noun

Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
The Ed Sullivan Theater, which first opened in 1927, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 2 July 2026

Definition of pinnacles

Noun

The Giants had past champs like Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning and Michael Strahan to sell Harbaugh on the glories of winning it all in New York.

— Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 22 July 2026
But above all, this page-turner by one of today’s great nonfiction writers is alert to the glories and terrors of daily inner life.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 8 July 2026