Revolution (Noun)
Meaning 1
A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 2
A single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 3
The overthrow of a government by those who are governed.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The protesters in the streets called for a revolution to bring down the corrupt regime.
- The French Revolution began in 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille.
- Her book detailed the revolution in South America that led to the country's independence from Spain.
- The Arab Spring was a wave of revolutions that swept across the Middle East in 2010 and 2011.
- The revolution in Russia in 1917 saw the end of the Romanov dynasty and the rise of the Soviet Union.