revolution
/ˌɹɛv.əˈluː.ʃən/ noun B2- A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change. · The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.
- The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- 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.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving. · the AI revolution
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
- a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
Plural revolutions
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As for Wickham and Lydia, their characters suffered no revolution from the marriage of her sisters.
There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of government; but these did not come within the horizon of my companion.
“Noirtier!” repeated the abbé; “Noirtier!—I knew a person of that name at the court of the Queen of Etruria,—a Noirtier, who had been a Girondin during the Revolution!
The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells; the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea.
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