revolution
/ˌɹɛv.əˈluː.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
Countable
noun
Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic."
- "Una rivoluzione è certamente la cosa più autoritaria che ci sia: è l'atto per il quale una parte della popolazione impone la sua volontà all'altra parte per mezzo di fucili, baionette e cannoni; mezzi autoritari, se ce ne sono; e il partito vittorioso, se non vuole aver combattuto invano, deve continuare questo dominio col terrore che le sue armi inspirano ai reazionari."
- "The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life."
- "For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France."
- "The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc."
- "The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: revolucion, revolūtiō, revolvō
Usage
Inflected Forms
revolutions (plural)
the Revolution (canonical)