resurrection

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of restoring a dead person, for example, to life.
• noun The condition of having been restored to life.
• noun The return of Jesus to life on the third day after the Crucifixion.
• noun The restoration of the dead to life at the Last Judgment.
• noun The act of bringing back to practice, notice, use, or vibrancy; revival.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In theology:
• noun A rising again from the dead.
• noun The state which follows the resurrection; the future state.
• noun In general, a rising again; a springing again into life or to a previous mode of existence; a restoration.
• noun Removal of a corpse from the grave for dissection; body-snatching.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
• noun Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead
• noun State of being risen from the dead; future state.
• noun The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
• noun a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars.
• noun (Bot.) a name given to several species of Selaginella (as Selaginella convoluta and Selaginella lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
• noun Christianity The Resurrection: The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a revival from inactivity and disuse
• noun (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion