revanche

Borrowed from French revanche. Doublet of revenge.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃ/, /ɹəˈvænt͡ʃ/, /ɹəˈvɑ̃ʃ/

revanche (countable and uncountable, plural revanches)

1. Revenge or retaliation.
2. The political policy of regaining lost territory.

• revanchism
• revanchist

French revanche

revanche

1. (games, military policy) a rematch

   bede om revanche

   ask for a rematch

   få, tage revanche

Usually without an article. Inflected forms are uncommon to rare.

Borrowed from Middle French revanche.

• IPA^(key): /reːˈvɑnʃ/, /rəˈvɑnʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧van‧che

revanche f (plural revanches, no diminutive)

1. revenge, retaliation
2. a rematch in sports or games

• revanchisme
• revanchist

• Negerhollands: revanschie

Deverbal from revancher.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/

• Audio; “une revanche”:

  (file)

revanche f (plural revanches)

1. revenge; vengeance

   prendre sa revanche ― to get one's own back

   à charge de revanche ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   en revanche ― however

2. (sports, games etc.) rematch

• venger

• → Turkish: rövanş

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

From French revanche.

• Hyphenation: re‧van‧che

revanche f (plural revanches)

1. revenge; vengeance
2. (sports, games etc.) rematch

• “revanche”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “revanche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026