revenant

Definitions


[ˈrɛvɪnənt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead
(e.g: he was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century: French, literally ‘coming back’, present participle (used as a noun) of revenir




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