1.
reincarnation; a reborn person
Being born again into a new life after death, or a person regarded as the reborn form of someone from the past.
猫の生まれ変わりだと言われた。
I was told I was the reincarnation of a cat.
かれは祖父の生まれ変わりのようだ。
He seems like the reincarnation of his grandfather.
改装した店は、まるで生まれ変わったように明るくなった。
The renovated shop became bright, as if reborn.
The noun form of 生まれ変わる (to be reborn). Refers to reincarnation in a religious sense, or to someone seen as another person reborn. The verb form is also widely used figuratively for renewal or transformation.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- ~の生まれ変わり: the reincarnation of ~
- 生まれ変わったように: as if reborn; completely changed
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 転生: reincarnation — more formal; common in fiction such as 異世界転生
- 輪廻: the cycle of rebirth — a Buddhist concept of the whole cycle, not a single rebirth