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REINCARNATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reincarnation" is a kind of...):
theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A second or new birth
Synonyms:
rebirth; reincarnation; renascence
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reincarnation" is a kind of...):
birth; nascence; nascency; nativity (the event of being born)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reincarnation"):
transmigration (the passing of a soul into another body after death)
cycle of rebirth ((Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)
Example:
his reincarnation as a lion
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reincarnation" is a kind of...):
avatar; embodiment; incarnation (a new personification of a familiar idea)
Derivation:
reincarnate (be born anew in another body after death)
