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restoration

Dictionary definition · Restoration

noun

  1. the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685
  2. the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
  3. the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660
  4. getting something back again"upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"
  5. the state of being restored to its former good condition"the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"
  6. some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed"the restoration looked exactly like the original"
  7. a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).