Definition of "resurrection"

resurrection

/ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural resurrections
1. The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
2. (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) The general resurrection.
  Quotations
  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Revelation 20:5–6
3. (figuratively) A miraculous comeback or revival (e. g. of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
4. (archaic) The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).