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、まるで生まれ変わりのようにがらりと明るくなった。
The renovated shop became completely bright, as if it had been 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