revenant
- n a person who returns after a lengthy absence
- n someone who has returned from the dead
- a of or relating to or typical of a revenant
revenant shrieks and groans - s coming back
a revenant ghost
- It also underscored Versace's debt to the arrowy, tidy chic of Andre Courreges, another '60s revenant.
- But Burnet Maybank Street is no ghostly revenant; he is is a hustling politician who knows what his people want and a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, who can give it to .
- This fall the shades of the 1980s have been lurking in the cobwebbed corners of America's pop culture: Michael Jackson, staring from his mug shot like a revenant; Ronald Reagan .