revolutionary

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

rev=o=lu=tion=ar=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun revolutionary has 1 sense

revolutionary(n = noun.person) revolutionist, subversive, subverter - a radical supporter of political or social revolution;

has particulars: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist, dynamiter, dynamitist, girondin, girondist, freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel, charlotte corday, corday, marie anne charlotte corday d'armont, danton, georges jacques danton, che guevara, ernesto guevara, guevara, mao, mao tsetung, mao zedong, jean paul marat, marat, jose julian marti, marti, karl marx, marx, comte de mirabeau, honore-gabriel victor riqueti, mirabeau, maxmillien marie isidore de robespierre, robespierre, leon trotsky, lev davidovich bronstein, trotsky, doroteo arango, francisco villa, pancho villa, villa, emiliano zapata, zapata, chou en-lai, zhou en-lai

is a kind of radical

Derived form adjective revolutionary₄

Adjective revolutionary has 4 senses

revolutionary(s = adj.all) radical - markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views"

Derived form noun revolution₁

revolutionary(a = adj.pert) rotatory - of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn;

Derived form noun revolution₃

revolutionary(a = adj.pert) - relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era"

Derived form noun

revolution₂

revolutionary(a = adj.all) - advocating or engaged in revolution; "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta"

Antonym:

counterrevolutionary

Derived form noun revolutionary₁

CIDE DICTIONARY

revolutionary, a. [Cf. F. révolutionnaire.].

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. [1913 Webster]

revolutionary, n.

A revolutionist. [1913 Webster]

"Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary." [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

revolutionary, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 involving great and often violent change.
2 of or causing political revolution.
3 (Revolutionary) of or relating to a particular revolution, esp. the War of American Independence.
--n. (pl. -ies) an instigator or supporter of political revolution.

THESAURUS

revolutionary

Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fabian, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Mafioso, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, Young Turk, agitator, altered, anarch, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, antagonistic, antipathetic, authentic, avant-garde, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, better, bomber, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, brute, cataclysmic, catastrophic, changeable, changed, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, converted, corrective, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, creative, criminal syndicalist, crotchety, degenerate, demon, deviant, devil, different, disorderly, dissident, divergent, dragon, emendatory, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremist, extremistic, factious, fanatic, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, firsthand, fresh, frondeur, fury, goon, gorilla, gradualistic, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hostile, hothead, hotspur, imaginative, improved, incendiary, inimical, innovative, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, killer, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mad dog, madcap, malcontent, maverick, meliorist, melioristic, metamorphosed, metastasized, mild radical, mildly radical, modified, monster, mugger, mutant, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, new, nihilist, nihilistic, nonconformist, novel, obstreperous, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, original, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, perverse, pink, pinko, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, qualified, rabid, radical, rampant, rapist, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, rebuilt, recalcitrant, red, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformed, reformer, reformist, reformistic, renewed, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revived, revolter, revolutional, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, revulsionary, revulsive, rioter, riotous, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, savage, seditionary, seditious, she-wolf, spitfire, subversive, sweeping, syndicalist, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, traitor, traitorous, transformed, transilient, translated, transmuted, treasonable, turbulent, ugly customer, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, unbridled, underived, unique, unmitigated, unruly, utopian, utopist, violent, virago, vixen, wild, wild beast, witch, wolf, worse, yippie

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Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

Revolution

N revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up, destruction, sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change, change of state, phase change, quantum leap, quantum jump, clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution, jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience, explosion, spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion, storm, earthquake, cataclysm, legerdemain, unrecognizable, revolutionary.

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peoples (root: people)

Noun, Noun Plural

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun peoples has 1 sense

peoples(n = noun.group) - the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group; "the indigenous peoples of Australia"

people

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liberation

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Noun

HYPHEN

lib=er=a=tion

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun liberation has 3 senses

liberation(n = noun.act) freeing, release - the act of liberating someone or something;

is a kind of accomplishment, achievement

has particulars: jail delivery, deregulating, deregulation, relief, disentanglement, extrication, unsnarling, untangling, emancipation, clearing, manumission, parole, probation

Derived forms verb liberate₂, verb liberate₃

liberation(n = noun.act) - the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation"

Derived forms verb liberate₃, verb liberate₁

liberation(n = noun.act) discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, release, sack, sacking - the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart);

has particulars: superannuation, conge, congee, removal, deactivation, inactivation, honorable discharge, dishonorable discharge, section eight

is a kind of conclusion, ending, termination

CIDE DICTIONARY

liberation, n. [L. liberatio: cf. F. libération. Cf. Livraison.].

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. [1913 Webster]

"This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system." [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

liberation, n. the act or an instance of liberating; the state of being liberated.

Idiom

liberation theology a theory which interprets liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation.

Derivative

liberationist n.

Etymology

ME f. L liberatio f. liberare: see LIBERATE

THESAURUS

liberation

abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement, enfranchising, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, filching, flight, fraud, free thought, freeing, freethinking, getaway, graft, issuance, issue, jailbreak, latitudinarianism, leak, leakage, liberalism, libertarianism, libertinism, lifesaving, lifting, loosing, open-mindedness, outlet, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prisonbreak, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, releasing, rescue, rescuing, retrieval, riddance, salvage, salvation, saving, scrounging, setting-free, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unchaining, unfettering, unshackling, vent

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liberation

Escape

N escape, scape, avolation, elopement, flight, evasion, retreat, narrow escape, hairbreadth escape, close call, come off, impunity, loophole, path, refuse, vent, vent peg, safety valve, drawbridge, fire escape, reprieve, liberation, refugee, escaping, escaped, stolen away, fled, the bird has flown the coop.

Deliverance

N deliverance, extrication, rescue, reprieve, reprieval, respite, liberation, emancipation, redemption, salvation, riddance, gaol delivery, redeemableness, saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable, Int, to the rescue!.

Liberation

N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.

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front

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Adjective

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun front has 10 senses

front(n = noun.location) forepart, front end - the side that is forward or prominent;

is a kind of face, side

has particulars: forefront, head

Derived forms verb front₂, verb front₁, adjective frontal₁

Antonym: rear

front(n = noun.location) battlefront, front line - the line along which opposing armies face each other;

is a part of battlefield, battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor

is a kind of line

Derived form adjective frontal₃

front(n = noun.cognition) - the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"

appearance

front(n = noun.artifact) - the side that is seen or that goes first;

is a kind of side

Derived forms verb front₂, adjective frontal₁

Antonym: rear

front(n = noun.person) figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity;

is a kind of beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster

front(n = noun.state) - a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"

front(n = noun.phenomenon) - (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses;

atmospheric phenomenon

has particulars: warm front, cold front, polar front, occluded front, occlusion

Derived form adjective frontal₂

front(n = noun.location) presence - the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company"

is a kind of proximity

front(n = noun.location) - the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage"

place

position

Antonym: back

Derived forms verb front₁, adjective frontal₁

front(n = noun.group) movement, social movement - a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"

is a kind of social group

has particulars: fighting french, free french, art movement, artistic movement, boy scouts, civil rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, oecumenism, falun gong, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, zionism, zionist movement

Verb front has 2 senses

front(v = verb.stative) face, look - be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park"

is one way to lie

Antonym: back

Derived forms noun front₁, noun front₉, noun frontage₂

Sample sentence:
His fields front mine at this point

front(v = verb.competition) breast - confront bodily; "breast the storm"

is one way to confront, face

Derived forms noun front₄, noun front₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Adjective front has 1 sense

front(a = adj.all) - relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch"

Antonym:

back

CIDE DICTIONARY

front, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.].

The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. [1913 Webster]
"Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue." [1913 Webster]

"Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front." [1913 Webster]

"His front yet threatens, and his frowns command." [1913 Webster]
The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front; [1913 Webster]
"With smiling fronts encountering." [1913 Webster]

"The inhabitants showed a bold front." [1913 Webster]
The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. [1913 Webster]
"Had he his hurts before?
Ay, on the front." [1913 Webster]
A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. [1913 Webster]
The most conspicuous part. [1913 Webster]
"The very head and front of my offending." [1913 Webster]
That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. [1913 Webster]
"Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front." [1913 Webster]
The beginning. Shak. [1913 Webster]
All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word “front,” used as an exclamation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow. -- To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.

front, a.

Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view. [1913 Webster]

front, v. t.

To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. [1913 Webster]
"You four shall front them in the narrow lane." [1913 Webster]
To appear before; to meet. [1913 Webster]
"[Enid] daily fronted him
In some fresh splendor." [1913 Webster]
To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. [1913 Webster]
"And then suddenly front the changed reality." [1913 Webster]
To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. [1913 Webster]
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. [1913 Webster]
"Yonder walls, that pertly front your town." [1913 Webster]

front, v. t.

To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east. [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

front, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 the side or part normally nearer or towards the spectator or the direction of motion (the front of the car; the front of the chair; the front of the mouth).
2 any face of a building, esp. that of the main entrance.
3 Mil. a the foremost line or part of an army etc. b line of battle. c the part of the ground towards a real or imaginary enemy. d a scene of actual fighting (go to the front). e the direction in which a formed line faces (change front).
4 a a sector of activity regarded as resembling a military front. b an organized political group.
5 a demeanour, bearing (show a bold front). b outward appearance.
6 a forward or conspicuous position (come to the front).
7 a a bluff. b a pretext.
8 a person etc. serving to cover subversive or illegal activities.
9 (prec. by the) the promenade of a seaside resort.
10 Meteorol. the forward edge of an advancing mass of cold or warm air.
11 (prec. by the) the auditorium of a theatre.
12 a a face. b poet. or rhet. a forehead.
13 a the breast of a man's shirt. b a false shirt-front.
14 impudence.
--attrib.adj.
1 of the front.
2 situated in front.
3 Phonet. formed at the front of the mouth.
--v.
1 intr. (foll. by on, to, towards, upon) have the front facing or directed.
2 intr. (foll. by for) sl. act as a front or cover for.
3 tr. furnish with a front (fronted with stone).
4 tr. lead (a band).
5 tr. a stand opposite to, front towards. b have its front on the side of (a street etc.).
6 tr. archaic confront, meet, oppose.

Idiom

front bench Brit. the foremost seats in Parliament, occupied by leading members of the government and opposition. front-bencher Brit. such a member. front door
1 the chief entrance of a house.
2 a chief means of approach or access to a place, situation, etc. front line Mil. = sense 3 of n. front-line States countries in Southern Africa bordering on and opposed to South Africa. front man a person acting as a front or cover. front matter Printing the title-page, preface, etc. preceding the text proper. front office a main office, esp. police headquarters. front page the first page of a newspaper, esp. as containing important or remarkable news. front passage colloq. the vagina.
front runner
1 the contestant most likely to succeed.
2 an athlete or horse running best when in the lead.
in front
1 in an advanced position.
2 facing the spectator.
in front of
1 ahead of, in advance of.
2 in the presence of, confronting. on the front burner see BURNER.

Derivative

frontless adj. frontward adj. & adv. frontwards adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF front (n.), fronter (v.) f. L frons frontis

THESAURUS

front

CAT, Charlie McCarthy, DMZ, accented, aceldama, act for, acting, advance, advance guard, aerospace, aerosphere, affectation, affectedness, affront, agent, ahead, air, air hole, air mass, air pocket, airhead, airs, airs and graces, airspace, alibi, alveolar, antecede, anteposition, anterior, anticyclone, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apology, apparent character, appearance, appearances, articulated, artificiality, aspect, assimilated, attitudinizing, avant-garde, back, banter, barytone, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, beachhead, beard, bearing, before, beginning, bell the cat, bid defiance, bilabial, bite the bullet, blind, bloc, bluff, bluffing, border, brave, brazen, brazen out, breast, bridgehead, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broad, brow, bump, bump heads, cacuminal, call out, candid, ceiling, central, cerebral, challenge, cheating, checked, chief, circumference, cloak, close, coalition, cold front, cold sector, color, coloring, combat area, combat zone, come before, come first, communist front, complain, complain loudly, confront, confront with, connection, consonant, consonantal, contend, contend with, continuant, contrapose, contraposit, contrast, cortex, countenance, counteract, cover, cover story, cover-up, covering, creature, crosswind, crust, cyclone, dare, deception, defy, delusion, demeanor, dental, deputy, device, direct, disguise, display, dispute, dissemblance, dissembling, dissent, dissimilated, dissimulation, dorsal, double-dare, dummy, effrontery, empty space, encounter, enemy line, envelope, envisage, epidermis, excuse, expression, exterior, exteriors, external, external appearance, externals, facade, face, face down, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, face upon, face with, facet, facing, faction, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, farthest outpost, favorable wind, feigned belief, feigning, feint, field, field of battle, field of blood, figurehead, firing line, first, first line, flat, fog, fore, forefront, foregoing, forehand, foremost, forthright, forward, four-flushing, frank, fraud, fringe, front for, front line, front man, front on, front rank, front-runner, frontage, frontal, gaudiness, gilt, give upon, glide, gloss, glossal, glottal, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, go-between, grass-roots movement, ground swell, group, guise, guttural, handle, hard, haughtiness, have priority, head, head the table, head up, head wind, heading, headmost, heavy, high, high-pressure area, hole, honest, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, image, imposture, in advance, in front, in the forefront, in the lead, insincerity, integument, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, intervener, interventionist, interventor, intonated, ionosphere, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, jetstream, kick against, kick off, killing ground, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lame excuse, landing beach, lateral, lax, lay before, lay figure, le pas, lead, lead off, leading, league, lie opposite, light, line, line of battle, lineaments, lingual, liquid, locus standi, look, look out upon, look over, look toward, low, low-pressure area, maiden, main, make a stand, mannerism, mask, masquerade, match, mediator, medium, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, meet squarely, mere externals, mere show, meretriciousness, mid, middleman, mien, monophthongal, mouthpiece, movement, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, nominal head, object, obverse, occluded front, occlusive, offer resistance, ombudsman, open, oppose, organization, ostensible motive, ostent, ostentation, outdare, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outface, outguard, outline, outpost, outrank, outside, outward appearance, outward show, overcast, overconfidence, overlook, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, party, periphery, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pioneer, pitch, pitched, place before, playacting, pocket, point, polar front, polarize, political front, poor excuse, popular front, pose, pose against, posing, posttonic, posture, precede, precedence, preceding, precursor, premier, present to, pretense, pretension, pretext, primary, prime, principal, priority, protest, protestation, prunes and prisms, public image, public motive, puppet, put in opposition, put it to, put-off, put-on, putting on airs, railhead, rank, rate, recalcitrate, refuge, reluct, remonstrate, replace, represent, representation, retroflex, revolt, rind, roughness, rounded, run the gauntlet, scout, scream defiance, screen, seat of war, seeming, semblance, semivowel, set at defiance, set before, sham, shambles, shell, show, show fight, simulacrum, simulation, skin, smoke screen, soft, sonant, soup, space, speak out, speak up, spearhead, speciousness, spokesman, spokeswoman, squall line, stalking-horse, stand, stand at bay, stand first, stand opposed, stand opposite, stand up against, stand up to, stare down, stationary front, stem, stooge, stopped, straightforward, stratagem, stratosphere, stressed, strive against, strong, stylishness, substitute for, substratosphere, subtend, subterfuge, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surd, surface, surface appearance, surface show, syllabic, tail wind, take precedence, tense, the front, the lead, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, thick, throaty, to the fore, tonal, tonic, top, trick, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, twangy, unaccented, unnaturalness, unrounded, unstressed, usher in, vain show, van, vanguard, varnish, veil, velar, venture, visibility, visibility zero, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warm front, weak, weather map, wide, wind-shift line, window dressing, wing, winning, withstand, zone of communications