remake

See also: Remake

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ make.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US):

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: re‧make
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• remakable
• remaker
• reremake

Translations

to make again

Bulgarian: преправям (bg) (prepravjam) Esperanto: refari, refarigi Finnish: tehdä uudelleen French: refaire (fr) Italian: rifare (it) Macedonian: пре́прави (prépravi) Portuguese: refazer (pt) Russian: де́лать за́ново (délatʹ zánovo), (again and differently) переде́лывать (ru) (peredélyvatʹ)

to make an enhanced remake of

Hungarian: új verzióban elkészít

Noun

remake (plural remakes)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

remake

Wikipedia

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:

     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:

     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:

     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.

Derived terms

• threemake

Translations

new version of something

Bulgarian: преработка (bg) f (prerabotka) Finnish: uusi versio, uusintaversio French: copie (fr) f, remake (fr) m Hungarian: új verzió, feldolgozás (hu) Macedonian: прера́ботка f (prerábotka) Russian: перерабо́тка (ru) f (pererabótka) Ukrainian: переро́бка f (pereróbka)

new version of film

Bulgarian: риме́йк m (riméjk) Czech: remake (cs) m Dutch: remake (nl) Esperanto: refilmado Finnish: uusintaversio, uusi versio, uudelleenfilmatisointi (fi) French: remake (fr) m, reprise (fr) f German: Remake (de) n, Neuverfilmung f Greek: ριμέικ (el) n (riméik) Italian: remake (it) m Japanese: リメイク (ja) (rimeiku) Korean: 리메이크 (rimeikeu) Macedonian: ри́мејк m (rímejk), прера́ботка f (prerábotka) Marathi: रीमेक m (rīmek) Polish: remake (pl) m Portuguese: remake m, refilmagem f Russian: риме́йк m (rimɛ́jk) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: римејк m Latin: rimejk (sh) m, remake (sh) m Swedish: nyinspelning c

Anagrams

• Kareem, Markee, markee

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

remake m inan

1. remake (of a film)

Declension

Declension of remake (velar masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	remake	remaky
genitive	remaku	remaků
dative	remaku	remakům
accusative	remake	remaky
vocative	remaku	remaky
locative	remaku	remacích
instrumental	remakem	remaky

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

remake

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from English remake.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧make

Noun

remake m (plural remakes, diminutive remakeje n)

1. remake (of a film)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English remake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.mɛk/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

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:

     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.

Further reading

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