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# resilience

noun (resilience — uncountable)

«resilience» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The ability to recover and keep going after something hard, sad or frightening; bouncing back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#m1)
2. The ability of a material to spring back into shape after being bent, squashed or stretched. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#m2)
3. The ability of a place, system or community to cope with problems like floods or power cuts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#m3)

### In the lessons

In school wellbeing lessons, resilience means not giving up when things go wrong — learning from mistakes and asking for help. In science, rubber has resilience. In geography and the news, towns build resilience against floods. In stories, a resilient hero gets knocked down and gets up again. Phrases: build resilience, show resilience, emotional resilience.

### Examples

- Learning to ride a bike takes resilience — you fall, then try again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#x1)
- The team showed real resilience after losing the first match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#x2)
- Our class talked about how to build resilience. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#x3)
- Rubber has great resilience; it springs back into shape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#x4)
- The village's resilience after the flood amazed everyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#x5)
- Resilience doesn't mean never feeling sad; it means you keep going. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable. Adjective: resilient. Spelling: resilience (ends -ience, not -iance). A myth is that resilient people never feel upset — they do, but they recover.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «resilience» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilience/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«resilience» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/resilience.html) on Mova free.