(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 ~ movement?
...the Cuban ~ leader, Jose Marti.
ADJ
2.
A ~ 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 ~ concept in internal combustion...
ADJ