revolutionary
48
5.8
- noun
- /ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənˌɛri/
:
revolucionario
- His visionary writing has influenced Latin American writers and Zapatista revolutionaries alike.
- support revolutionaries
- revolutionaries fighting
- band of revolutionaries
Anti colonial revolutionaries in Nigeria mainly wrote in French.
- Anti colonial revolutionaries in Nigeria mainly wrote in French.
- I agree with Rosa Luxembourg, the great Marxist revolutionary.
- It it basically turns us into revolutionaries and counter revolutionaries, Cubans and traitors.
- And then of course, further to the left you have the Socialist revolutionaries.
- What do you do with would be revolutionaries who say come with me, maybe another time.
- But it is also very important to keep in mind that they call themselves nationalists and revolutionaries.
- They somehow figure out a way to manipulate the elections to elect somebody like one of them Western revolutionaries.
Examples
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If anybody had the ears to hear what the revolutionaries wanted to say, it must be them.
Fiction book (2002) -
From her days in India, she remembers an idealistic young poet and revolutionary, Emile, whom she loved.
Academic text (1994) -
The end of history, if it does come, will not come for the revolutionaries who fight for it.
Academic text (1992) -
We may have different views and attitudes, but we are all revolutionaries who strive for social change.
Academic text (1993) -
Mick and his Arabs were caught out in the open by the revolutionaries.
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He's a committed revolutionary, and he never seems to have let a day pass without contriving to bring about the destruction of the British Empire.
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But Ahmadinejad also distinguished himself from his fellow revolutionaries in another regard.
Academic text (2008) -
By rejecting religion, the French revolutionaries rejected a fundamental part of human nature.
Academic text (1994) -
Baghdad fell in September, vanquished by battalions of revolutionaries rallying behind a vanguard of the dead.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many revolutionaries risk their lives to fight for social justice in their communities.
Synonyms
93
8.6
A person who fights against the government, often as part of a small armed group
79
6.3
A person who wants major political or social change
13
9.1
A person who supports extreme left politics
5
8.1
A person who tries to weaken or remove a government
1
7.0
A person who takes strong action to change a government or society
1
9.8
A person who takes part in an armed attack to try to remove a government
1
9.0
A person who joins or leads a public rebellion against the government
1
9.9
A person who tries to weaken a country's leaders or how society is run
A person who takes part in a revolt against authority
Antonyms
Compounds
24
3.7
A war from 1775 to 1783 when thirteen American colonies fought Britain for independence
A war from 1775 to 1783 when the American colonies fought to become independent from Britain
1
9.9
A rebel group in Sierra Leone that fought the government, took control of diamond mines and used child soldiers
A Palestinian armed group formed in 1974 that carried out attacks in other countries
A Palestinian armed group that split from the PLO in 1974 and carried out attacks in several countries
A Palestinian armed group that split from the PLO in 1974 and carried out attacks abroad
A far-left group in Turkey that attacks police and the army and opposes NATO and the United States
A far-left Greek armed group formed in 1971 to oppose the military government and capitalism
An armed group in the Philippines formed in the 1980s that split from the main communist party and used violence
A secret Italian left-wing group known for bombings in Rome between 2000 and 2002
A left-wing group in Greece that carried out violent attacks and political killings
- Archaic
A calendar created during the French Revolution that starts on 22 September 1792 and ends in 1805
- Archaic
A month in the French Revolutionary calendar used in France from 1793 to 1805
An armed left-wing group in Colombia that fought the government and used kidnapping and the drug trade to fund itself
- Literature
A political party in Colombia formed by former fighters after the 2016 peace talks
An armed left-wing rebel group in Peru formed in 1983 to try to overthrow the government
How Revolutionary
- Literature
93
8.6
48
5.8
6
3.7
817
1.0
37
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
revolutionary = revolutionary (semi-transparent) = revolution + ary
The noun is a conversion of the adjective 'revolutionary', and its meaning is readily related to revolution, though the agentive noun use is a step beyond the basic adjective meaning.
Etymology
The word revolutionary as a noun comes from re- 'back' and volvere 'to turn', the same root as revolve. So a revolutionary is a person who helps 'turn' the government or society into something new.