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revenant

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rev⋅e⋅nant

  [rev-uh-nuhnt]
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–noun
1. a person who returns.
2. a person who returns as a spirit after death; ghost.
Origin:
1820–30; < F: ghost, n. use of prp. of revenir to return, equiv. to re- re- + ven(ir) to come (< L venīre) + -ant -ant
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rev·e·nant   (rěv'ə-nənt)   
n.  

  1. One that returns after a lengthy absence.

  2. One who returns after death.


[French, from present participle of revenir, to return, from Old French; see revenue.]
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