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carnation revolution

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English

Syllables
car-na-tion rev-o-lu-tion
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A revolution and military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the colonialist and authoritarian Estado Novo on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, Portugal, leading to major cultural and political changes.

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese Revolução dos Cravos. So named because a woman who had carnations handed them out to soldiers in the early hours of the coup, and they were placed in gun barrels and became a symbol of the peacefulness of the coup.

Inflected Forms

the Carnation Revolution (canonical)

Questions

What does carnation revolution mean?
A revolution and military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the colonialist and authoritarian Estado Novo on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, Portugal, leading to major cultural and political changes.
Where does carnation revolution come from?
Calque of Portuguese Revolução dos Cravos. So named because a woman who had carnations handed them out to soldiers in the early hours of the coup, and they were placed in gun barrels and became a symbol of the peacefulness of the coup.

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