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1. A person who returns after a lengthy absence
    
2. Someone who has returned from the dead

1. Coming back
   "a revenant ghost";
   - recurring
    
2. Of or relating to or typical of a revenant
   "revenant shrieks and groans"

Derived forms: revenants

See also: continual

Type of: ghost, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Encyclopedia: Revenant