renovation

See also: rénovation

English

A building undergoing renovation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin renovatio, renovationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnəveɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

renovation (countable and uncountable, plural renovations)

1. An act, or the process, of renovating.
   • 2017, Anru Lee, Wen-hui Anna Tang, “Gender, Popular Religion, and the Politics of Memory in Taiwan's Urban Renewal: The Case of the Twenty-Five Ladies' Tomb”, in Zayn R. Kassam, editor, Women and Asian Religions‎^[1], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:

     During the course, the Cijin District Office, the frontline local government unit in charge of executing the tomb's renovation, also worked hard to communicate with the deceased's families about how to redesign the space.

2. (theology) Regeneration.

Derived terms

• renovationism
• renovationist
• renoviction

Related terms

• renovate

Translations

act or process of renovating

• Arabic: تَجْدِيد m (tajdīd), إِحْيَاء m (ʔiḥyāʔ), تَرْمِيم m (tarmīm)
• Armenian: վերանորոգում (hy) (veranorogum)
• Bulgarian: възстановяване (bg) n (vǎzstanovjavane), ремонт (bg) m (remont)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 整修 (zh) (zhěngxiū), 翻新 (zh) (fānxīn), 刷新 (zh) (shuāxīn)

• Dutch: renovatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: renovigo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: saneeraus (fi), peruskorjaus, remontti (fi)
• French: rénovation (fr) f
• Georgian: რემონტი (remonṭi)
• German: Renovierung (de) f
• Hebrew: שִׁיפּוּץ m (šipuṣ/shiputz)
• Hungarian: renoválás (hu), felújítás (hu)
• Irish: athnuachan f, deisiú tí m (of a house)
• Italian: rinnovamento (it), innovazione (it), miglioramento (it), aggiornamento (it)
• Japanese: 改装 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō), 修築 (ja) (しゅうちく, shūchiku), 更改 (ja) (こうかい, kōkai)
• Latin: renovātiō f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: renovering m or f

  Nynorsk: renovering f

• Polish: remont (pl) m
• Portuguese: reforma (pt) f
• Russian: ремо́нт (ru) m (remónt), реконстру́кция (ru) f (rekonstrúkcija), обновле́ние (ru) n (obnovlénije)
• Spanish: reforma (es) f
• Swahili: ukarabati (sw)
• Tagalog: pagsasaayos, pagkakapag-ayos
• Turkish: yenileme (tr), bakım (tr), tamirat (tr)
• Ukrainian: ремо́нт m (remónt), оно́влення n (onóvlennja)