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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revolutionary
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal
▪ He approached the job with missionary zeal.
revolutionary ideals
▪ He still believed in the revolutionary ideals of equality and justice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ The farmer and his wife want their area to take part in this revolutionary action.
▪ Such political behavior can manifest itself in strikes, violent demonstrations, insurrections, and revolutionary action.
▪ This episode helped spur the revolutionary action taken against the king at the Westminster Parliament which opened a week later.
activity
▪ It is also, rather vaguely, thought of as a revolutionary activity.
▪ When he was 17 years old, he was expelled from school for revolutionary activities and never returned to the class-room.
▪ It concludes that this change induced by the outside power resulted in the country people becoming involved in revolutionary activity.
change
▪ Britain has undergone three periods of revolutionary change.
▪ In part, the growth of peer pressure will result from revolutionary changes in pay practices.
▪ Some systems are characterized by rapid and sometimes revolutionary change.
▪ But this revolutionary change will not be painless.
▪ Stone's analysis of the legislation provides a valuable corrective to those who have argued that it represented a revolutionary change.
▪ It was an unconscious, evolutionary progression, with an occasional revolutionary change of which they became quite conscious.
▪ Women in this country have made revolutionary changes in their roles in the past 25 years.
forces
▪ There were some campesina women who wouldn't accept anything but worked in the fields as their form of helping the revolutionary forces.
▪ Retreat, therefore, was always an option for revolutionary forces.
government
▪ Radical socialists urged that the Soviet was in a position to establish a revolutionary government in defiance of the Duma Committee.
▪ One of the first decisions taken by the revolutionary government was to create multi-disciplinary mental-health teams operating in the community.
group
▪ The group, which began its uprising in February 1996, has links with other revolutionary groups.
▪ They form a clearly defined revolutionary group, and have been called the Pioneers.
▪ We supplied information to different revolutionary groups for many years about Devraux's work for the Surete.
idea
▪ Keith joined us with just the expertise we required, and some revolutionary ideas, in 1991.
▪ Unfortunately, the work containing his most revolutionary ideas has not been preserved.
▪ In the event, however, the crisis served mainly to demonstrate the dominance of older pacifist traditions over revolutionary ideas.
▪ Chapman's revolutionary ideas extended also to the running of the national team.
▪ He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time.
▪ Like many great and revolutionary ideas in science this one was more or less ignored.
▪ The Carrera 4 is bristling with revolutionary ideas.
ideology
▪ Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
leader
▪ Burton played the anguished but heroic young captain who would not betray the revolutionary leader despite the systematic slaughter of six hostages.
▪ A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader.
▪ The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed's claim to be a revolutionary leader.
literature
▪ If the balance is maintained, the result is a revolutionary literature in which aesthetics mobilises ideology and ideology motivates aesthetics.
▪ It is in this sense that Nizan's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader.
▪ Marxism, in short, constitutes the intellectual, moral and aesthetic guidelines of revolutionary literature.
marxism
▪ In surrealism the revolution of the psychic self the inner world, was symbiotically linked with revolutionary Marxism.
▪ Divorced from the program of revolutionary Marxism, cadres immersed in the mass movement eventually succumb to opportunism.
movement
▪ But they left largely unchallenged the Bolshevik view of October 1917 itself as the greatest achievement of the world revolutionary movement.
▪ Appeals for support of a new revolutionary movement, therefore, gained relatively few adherents.
▪ In addition the armed revolutionary movement was said to control or influence twenty percent of the country's villages.
▪ On all sides, opportunities for growth are opening up for the revolutionary movement.
▪ The second question concerns the types of groups most likely to comprise the largest support for violent rebellions or revolutionary movements.
▪ The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
▪ It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander's reign.
party
▪ Although they founded the major revolutionary parties of the twentieth century, they were soon outnumbered within them.
process
▪ For that reason, a women's organization linked to the revolutionary process is very important.
▪ In addition, any classification is time specific, because evolutionary and revolutionary processes can change the nature of a political system.
rhetoric
▪ Behind a veil of revolutionary rhetoric, the Council of People's Commissars suppressed the masses' striving for liberty.
upheaval
▪ Within the revolutionary upheaval envisaged, relations between town and countryside are disrupted.
▪ There will be no lack of revolutionary upheavals.
▪ Such a pattern of attitudes is what one might expect from people suddenly drawn into politics by a revolutionary upheaval.
writer
▪ The task of the revolutionary writer is therefore complex.
▪ The revolutionary writer, by contrast, is a risk-taker.
▪ The great revolutionary writer must retain the sophisticated literary qualities of Dostoievsky, whilst acceding to the clear-sighted political qualities of Lenin.
zeal
▪ Inside, I was gripped, as I always was, by the intense atmosphere of revolutionary zeal.
▪ Both brought a revolutionary zeal to their work, literally and figuratively.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ revolutionary technology for producing cheap, pollution-free energy
▪ Einstein's revolutionary theories made people look at the universe in a completely new way.
▪ I was very involved in revolutionary activity then.
▪ My father taught me several revolutionary songs.
▪ The new treatment for cancer is considered revolutionary.
▪ When revolutionary forces marched into Havana, Castro and Che Guevara took control of the army.
▪ Women have made revolutionary changes in their roles in the past 25 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At all events, it is thanks to them that the revolutionary humanism of 1789 still lives on.
▪ Elsewhere in the county Quakerism emerged in the 1650s to be fairly firmly suppressed by a gentry worried about its revolutionary tendencies.
▪ Nevertheless, Picasso's bronze Head is in many ways a revolutionary work.
▪ Opposition to the party establishment was created in the form of revolutionary committees and communes.
▪ Several rival revolutionary armies were challenging the central government and each other.
▪ The Council's use of the term is therefore revolutionary.
▪ The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Garcia Gutierrez wrote two plays with revolutionaries as their heroes.
▪ Having taken control of the capital city, the revolutionaries proceeded to form a new government.
▪ They think they're revolutionaries, but they're nothing but common criminals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He checked out a book that contained police pictures of revolutionaries.
▪ He had become a professional revolutionary.
▪ In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues, the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois, trade-unionist mentality.
▪ With each decade the revolutionaries became more and more concerned with efficiency.
▪ Women participate, not as feminists, but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation.
▪ Writers and filmmakers were no longer required to portray heroes as shining revolutionaries and villains as agents of the Saigon regime.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revolutionary

Revolutionary \Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]volutionnaire.] Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

Revolutionary

Revolutionary \Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, n. A revolutionist. [R.]

Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary.
--Prof. Wilson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revolutionary

1774; see revolution + -ary. As a noun, from 1850 (cf revolutionist).

Wiktionary
revolutionary

a. 1 Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. 2 (context advertising English) pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset 3 (context sciences English) pertaining to something that revolves n. A revolutionist; a person who revolts.

WordNet
revolutionary

  1. adj. markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views" [syn: radical]

  2. relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era"

  3. advocating or engaged in revolution; "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta" [ant: counterrevolutionary]

revolutionary

n. a radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: revolutionist, subversive, subverter]

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Wikipedia
Revolutionary (comics)

The Revolutionary is a fictional superhero published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1 (January 2008), and was created by Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Patrick Scherberger.

Revolutionary (album)

is the third full-length album of the Japanese rock band 9mm Parabellum Bullet released on April 21, 2010.

Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.

Usage examples of "revolutionary".

Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must needs meet with the combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.

The Anarchist Cookbook is not a revolutionary work in itself, just as a gun cannot shoot, but I have a sincere hope that it may stir some stagnant brain cells into action.

An anarchist is not necessarily a revolutionary, although it is more common than not that a person who has attempted to rid himself of exterior controls, for the purpose of developing his own philosophy, will find himself oppressed.

Zionists additionally saw revolutionary Marxism as an assimilationist enemy which persuaded them to ally against it with their fellow separatists of the anti-Semitic right-wing nationalist movements in Eastern Europe.

The Anglophone tradition in this century, which in almost every other respect has made a powerful and prolific contribution to revolutionary historiography, has a particularly egregious record of silent embarrassment, rather as though a dinner guest had met with an unfortunate but inexplicable accident in the college common room.

His political articles and memoranda written in the revolutionary year 1848 attracted official attention.

But an objection to this improvement came from the Macedonian Autonomists, represented by the notorious Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, which operated in both Yugoslavia and in Bulgaria.

Every successive revolutionary disturbance in Naples saw a recrudescence of brigandage down to the unification of 1860-1861, and then it was years before the Italian government rooted it out.

If the Christian Socialists have a right to their God, and monogamists to their eternal marriage, then surely in a revolutionary movement like ours, the complete revolutionists have, to say the least, an equal right to their agnosticism and their free union.

But as shall become clear, when seen in its proper context, string theory emerges as a dramatic yet natural outgrowth of the revolutionary discoveries of physics during the past hundred years.

All other methods, such as revolutionary use of bourgeoisie parliamentarism, will be of only secondary significance.

Lorry, and Miss Pross is gradually transferred to the revolutionaries.

The revolutionary organization has hitherto been simply a military provisionary power, and no definitive constitution of government has yet been established in New Granada in place of that organized by the constitution of 1858.

Free Congregations, which contributed equally to the Rationalistic and revolutionary movements.

Though they were undoubtedly a minority in the relentlessness of their revolutionary convictions, the militants were capable, on days of crisis, of mobilizing armed crowds of tens of thousands.