revolution

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 58.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.

   The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.

2. noun The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
3. noun Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
4. noun In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.

   It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.

5. noun A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

   the AI revolution

6. noun A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
7. noun Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
8. noun a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.

Similar words

rotation gyration roll revolutionary coup insurrection uprising insurgency rebellion independence

Often followed by

in of and was is had to that which

Word family

Revolution Revolutions revolutionaries revolutionary revolutionise revolutionised revolutionises revolutionising revolutionist revolutionists