revolution Definition

revolution
noun

1. The overthrow or rejection of a government or political system by the governed, often, but not necessarily, involving violence.

Thesaurus: uprising, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, insurrection, riot, anarchy, outbreak, coup, overthrow, reversal.
2a. In Marxism: the class struggle ending with the working class taking control of the means of production and becoming the ruling class;
2b. In Marxism: the transition from one system of production to another, the political changes brought about as a result of this, and ending with the establishment of Communism.
3. Complete, drastic and usually far-reaching change in ideas, social habits, ways of doing things, etc.

Example: the Industrial Revolution
4a. The action of turning or moving round an axis;
4b. One complete circle or turn round an axis.

Thesaurus: rotation, turn, gyration, pirouette, orbit, cycle, roll, circuit, spin, circumvolution.
5a. astron.
The action of one planet or object moving in an orbit around another;
5b. astron.
One such orbital movement;
5c. astron.
The time taken to make one such orbital movement.
6a. A cycle of events;
6b. The time taken to go through such a cycle and return to the starting point.
7. geol.
A time of major change in the earth's features.

Derivative: revolutionism
noun

The theory of or support for political, social, etc revolution.

Derivative: revolutionist
noun

Someone who supports or advocates revolution; a revolutionary.

adj

Relating to revolution.

Etymology: 14c: from French révolution.