αποκατάσταση — meaning in English

English meaning

• reconstruction noun The process of rebuilding something, or the rebuilt result.
• rehabilitation noun The process of helping someone or something return to a good or normal condition.
• reparation noun Payment or other compensation made to people who have been wronged, especially by a state to a group it has harmed. Usually plural: reparations.
• restoration noun The process of returning something to its original or an earlier good condition.

Senses

αποκατάσταση is used for these senses in English:

• apocatastasis (especially, religion, rare) An apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople.
• reconstruction The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
• rehabilitation The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.
• reparation (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
• restoration The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.

reconstruction — full definition

1. noun The process of rebuilding something, or the rebuilt result.
2. noun A detailed retelling of events leading up to something, often used by investigators.
3. noun Capitalized: the period after the American Civil War (1865-1877) when the US tried to reintegrate the former Confederate states.

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