Definitions
the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).
Used in a sentence
“The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.”
“The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life.”
“The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Overthrow of a regime”10 letters
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