remake

From re- +‎ make.

• (verb) enPR: rēmāk', IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈmeɪk/

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• (noun) enPR: rē'māk, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːmeɪk/

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• Hyphenation: re‧make
• Rhymes: -eɪk

remake (third-person singular simple present remakes, present participle remaking, simple past and past participle remade)

1. (transitive) To make again.

   Synonyms: re-create, redo

   You'll need to remake that cake, as it's completely burned.

2. (transitive) To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.).

   Hyponym: reboot

   The director wanted to remake some of his favourite films from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […] .

   • 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:

     In 1976 and 1977, and the years to follow, as symbolically remade by the Sex Pistols, it was, perhaps, dadaists, lettrists, situationists, and various medieval heretics.

remake (plural remakes)

1. A new version of something.

   Synonyms: reboot, re-creation

2. A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc.

   Hyponyms: reboot, cover version

   I haven't seen the original film, but the remake was great.

   • 2012 August 24, John Patterson, “Total Recall—a remake to forget”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The thing I like most about the Total Recall remake is the—I have to presume ironic—name of its production company. The first words that appear on screen are “Original Film”.

   • 2020 August 1, Imad Khan, “Like Old Hollywood Movies, Video Games Get a Polish for New Audiences”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Like Hollywood remakes or remasters old movies, video game publishers are overhauling and rereleasing games to tap into ready-made fan bases for popular franchises like The Legend of Zelda, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon and World of Warcraft.

   • 2022 March 18, Adrian Horton, “Cheaper by the Dozen review – breezy Disney remake of family comedy”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The family film is the remake of a remake – the 2022 version puts a new spin on the 2003 movie of the same name, which updated the 1950 movie based on the semi-autobiographical novel by siblings Frank Butler Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

• Kareem, Markee, markee

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪmɛjk]
• Hyphenation: re‧make

remake m inan

1. remake (of a film)

Borrowed from English remake.

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• Hyphenation: re‧make

remake m (plural remakes, diminutive remakeje n)

1. remake (of a film)

Borrowed from English remake.

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.mɛk/

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remake m (plural remakes)

1. (film) remake
   • 2022 April 23, Patrick Roger, “Présidentielle 2022 : les clés de lecture avant le second tour entre Emmanuel Macron et Marine Le Pen”, in Le Monde.fr‎^[4]:

     Le duel qui se rejoue dimanche 24 avril entre les deux finalistes du scrutin de 2017 ne saurait être un simple remake.

     The rematch between the two finalists in the 2017 election that will take place on Sunday 24 April cannot be a simple repeat of last time.

• “remake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from English remake.

• IPA^(key): /riˈmejk/, /riˈmɛjk/, /reˈmejk/, /reˈmɛjk/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ejk, -ɛjk

remake m

1. remake (of a film)

• remake in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

• IPA^(key): /riˈmɛjk/

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  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛjk
• Syllabification: re‧make

remake m inan

1. remake (new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc.)

   Coordinate term: reboot

• remake in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• remake in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• remake in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

remake m (plural remakes)

1. remake (new version of a production, such as a film or a videogame)

• “remake”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

remake n (plural remake-uri)

1. remake (about a film)

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrimeik/ [ˈri.mei̯k]
• Rhymes: -imeik

remake m (plural remakes)

1. remake

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “remake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025