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English
Etymology
Compare French révolutionnaire; equivalent to revolution + -ary.
Pronunciation
Adjective
revolutionary (comparative more revolutionary, superlative most revolutionary)
- Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution
revolutionary war
revolutionary measures
revolutionary agitators
1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:In 1885, one hundred and ten years after the American Declaration of Independence, a young Chinese medical doctor named Sun Yat-sen began preaching his revolutionary principles. Ten years later, in 1895, he founded in Honolulu the first Chinese revolutionary party with what then must have seemed an unbelievably ambitious aim of overthrowing the monarchical system of government which had been in continuous existence in China for forty centuries.
- pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset
a revolutionary new tool
- (sciences) pertaining to something that revolves
Translations
of or pertaining to a revolution in government
of or pertaining to a revolutionary, revolutionist
something that signifies great change
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 革命性的 (zh) (gémìngxìng de)
- Czech: revoluční (cs), převratný
- Danish: revolutionær (da), banebrydende, epokegørende
- Faroese: kollveltingarsamur, slóðbrótandi
- Finnish: mullistava (fi), uraauurtava (fi), vallankumouksellinen (fi)
- Greek: επαναστατικός (el) (epanastatikós)
- Icelandic: byltingarkenndur
- Irish: réabhlóideach
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: revolusjonær, revolusjonerende, banebrytende, banebrytande
- Nynorsk: revolusjonær
- Polish: rewolucyjny (pl)
- Portuguese: revolucionário (pt)
- Swedish: revolutionär (sv), banbrytande (sv), revolutionerande (sv), epokgörande (sv)
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Noun
revolutionary (plural revolutionaries)
- A revolutionist; a person who revolts.
1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
Translations
a revolutionist; a person who revolts
- Albanian: revolucionar (sq) m
- Arabic: ثَوْرِيّ m (ṯawriyy), ثَوْرِيَّة f (ṯawriyya)
- Armenian: հեղափոխական (hy) (heġapʻoxakan)
- Azerbaijani: inqilabçı
- Belarusian: рэвалюцыяне́р m (revaljucyjanjér), рэвалюцыяне́рка f (revaljucyjanjérka)
- Bulgarian: революционе́р (bg) m (revoljucionér), революционе́рка f (revoljucionérka)
- Burmese: တော်လှန်ရေးသမား (my) (tauhlanre:sa.ma:)
- Catalan: revolucionari (ca) m, revolucionària (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 革命家 (gaak3 ming6 gaa1)
- Mandarin: 革命家 (zh) (gémìngjiā), 革命者 (zh) (gémìngzhě)
- Crimean Tatar: inqilapçı
- Czech: revolucionář (cs) m, revolucionářka f
- Danish: revolutionær (da) c
- Dutch: revolutionair (nl) m
- Estonian: revolutsionäär
- Finnish: vallankumouksellinen (fi)
- French: révolutionnaire (fr) m or f
- Georgian: რევოლუციონერი (revolucioneri)
- German: Revolutionär (de) m, Revolutionärin (de) f
- Greek: επαναστάτης (el) m (epanastátis), επαναστάτρια (el) f (epanastátria)
- Hebrew: רֶבוֹלוּצְיוֹנֶר m (revolutsionér), מַהְפְּכָן m (mahapkhán)
- Hindi: क्रांतिकारी (hi) (krāntikārī), इंक़लाबी (iṅqlābī), क्रांतिकारक m (krāntikārak), परिवर्तनवादी m (parivartanvādī)
- Hungarian: forradalmár (hu)
- Irish: réabhlóidí m
- Italian: rivoluzionario (it), rivoluzionaria (it) f
- Japanese: 革命家 (ja) (かくめいか, kakumeika)
- Kazakh: төңкеріскер (töñkerısker), революцияшыл (revolüsiäşyl), революционер (revolüsioner)
- Khmer: អ្នកបដិវត្ត (nĕək paʼdevŏət)
- Korean: 혁명가(革命家) (ko) (hyeongmyeongga)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شۆڕشگێڕ (şorrişgêrr)
- Northern Kurdish: şoreşger (ku), înqilapger
- Kyrgyz: революционер (revolyutsioner)
- Lao: ນັກປະຕິວັດ
- Latvian: revolucionārs m, revolucionāre f
- Lithuanian: revoliucionierius m, revoliucionierė f
- Macedonian: револуционе́р m (revolucionér), револуционе́рка f (revolucionérka)
- Malay: revolusioner
- Malayalam: വിപ്ലവകാരി (ml) (viplavakāri)
- Maori: kaiwhana, kaiwhakatuma, hauhau
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хувьсгалч (mn) (xuvʹsgalč), хувьсгалт (mn) (xuvʹsgalt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: revolusjonær m
- Nynorsk: revolusjonær m
- Persian: انقلابی (fa) (enqelâbi)
- Polish: rewolucjonista (pl) m, rewolucjonistka (pl) f
- Portuguese: revolucionário (pt) m, revolucionária f
- Romanian: revoluționar (ro) m, revoluționară (ro) f
- Russian: революционе́р (ru) m (revoljucionér), революционе́рка (ru) f (revoljucionérka)
- Scottish Gaelic: rèabhlaideach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: револуцио̀на̄р m, револуцио̀на̄рка f
- Roman: revoluciònār (sh) m, revoluciònārka (sh) f
- Slovak: revolucionár m, revolucionárka f
- Slovene: revolucionar m, revolucionarka f
- Spanish: revolucionario (es) m, revolucionaria (es) f
- Swahili: mpinduzi
- Swedish: revolutionär (sv) c
- Tagalog: rebolusyonaryo (tl)
- Tajik: инқилобчӣ (inqilobčī)
- Tatar: революционер (rewolyutsioner)
- Thai: นักปฏิวัติ (nák-bpà-dtì-wát)
- Turkish: devrimci (tr), inkilapçı
- Turkmen: ynkylapçy
- Ukrainian: революціоне́р m (revoljucionér), революціоне́рка f (revoljucionérka)
- Uyghur: ئىنقىلابچى (inqilabchi)
- Uzbek: revolyutsioner (uz), inqilobchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: nhà cách mạng (家革命)
- Volapük: (♂♀) levolutan (vo), (♂) hilevolutan, (♀) jilevolutan
- Yiddish: רעוואָלוציאָנער m (revolutsyoner)
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