Definitions for revolutionary
ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr irev·o·lu·tion·ary

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter(adj)

   a radical supporter of political or social revolution

2. revolutionary, radical(adj)

   markedly new or introducing radical change

   "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views"

3. rotatory, revolutionary(adj)

   of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

4. revolutionary(adj)

   relating to or having the nature of a revolution

   "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era"

5. revolutionary(adj)

   advocating or engaged in revolution

   "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. revolutionary(Noun)

   A revolutionist; a person who revolts.

   Etymology: confer révolutionnaire

2. revolutionary(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

   Etymology: confer révolutionnaire

3. revolutionary(Adjective)

   pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset

   Etymology: confer révolutionnaire

4. revolutionary(Adjective)

   pertaining to something that revolves

   Etymology: confer révolutionnaire

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Revolutionary(adj)

   of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators

   Etymology: [Cf. F. rvolutionnaire.]

2. Revolutionary(noun)

   a revolutionist

   Etymology: [Cf. F. rvolutionnaire.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. revolutionary

   Tending or pertaining to a revolution in government; as, a revolutionary war.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'revolutionary' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3856

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'revolutionary' in Adjectives Frequency: #517

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of revolutionary in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of revolutionary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of revolutionary in a Sentence

1. Erica Jong:

   To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

2. Maryam Rajavi:

   From the outset we have rejected this reactionary and bellicose policy and seek amicable relations with the rest of our neighbors to confront this regime, the Islamic revolutionary Guard Corps must be designated as a foreign terrorist group and evicted from the region. More sanctions need to be imposed on the regime. the Iranian people long for freedom and democracy, equality, and an advanced society. Moreover the Iranian people demand an overthrow of this regime, she said. Rajavi has called on international organizations to expel Iran because of its support of terrorism, restore sanctions on some officials and start war crimes prosecutions for those that she says are responsible for massacring civilians. Iran, however considers the N.C.R.I a terrorist organization, a claim the group rejects. The N.C.R.I says the regime has executed more than 120,000 of its followers who oppose the regime. Mrs. Rajavi alluded to America’s July 4th Independence Day, and the rights secured in the Declaration of Independence.

3. James Scott:

   The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and refusing to intellectually ingest the toxic force feed of the establishment minority’s matrix narrative.

4. Alan Rickman:

   Every single black character in that film is positive and highly intelligent, so, 28 years ago, that's quite revolutionary, and quietly so.

5. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi:

   I had asked Iran: 'lift your hand from Yemen', i did not bring this from vacuum. We caught people who had been trained by the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guard. They were jailed in our prisons.

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