counterrevolution
pronunciation
How to pronounce counterrevolution in British English:
UK ['kaʊntərevəˌlu:ʃən]
How to pronounce counterrevolution in American English:
US [ˌkaʊntəˌrevə'luʃən]
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- Noun:
- a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution
Word Origin
- counterrevolution (n.)
- also counter-revolution, 1791, from counter- + revolution. First recorded in U.S. with reference to American Revolution.
Example
- 1. Rodchenko : the impact of revolution and counterrevolution .
- 2. The counterrevolution has triumphed before in france , just as reforming governments have been chucked out in britain .
- 3. The imperialist media blame the failure of counterrevolution in tibet on the sheer brutality and ' human rights abuses ' used by china to suppress the tibetan ' popular masses ' .
- 4. Revolution and counterrevolution : class struggle in a moscow metal factory .
- 5. Indeed , the uprising was more a counterrevolution than a revolution .
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