REVOLUTIONARY


Meaning of REVOLUTIONARY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ revəlu:ʃənri, AM -neri ]

( revolutionaries)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Revolutionary activities, organizations, or people have the aim of causing a political revolution.

Do you know anything about the revolutionary movement?

...the Cuban revolutionary leader, Jose Marti.

ADJ

2.

A revolutionary is a person who tries to cause a revolution or who takes an active part in one.

The revolutionaries laid down their arms and its leaders went into voluntary exile.

N-COUNT

3.

Revolutionary ideas and developments involve great changes in the way that something is done or made.

Invented in 1951, the rotary engine is a revolutionary concept in internal combustion...

ADJ

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