Revolutionary

REVOLUTIONARY

Sentence definition: a revolutionary seems like it is a movement for change or something that people can join and they fight for change.

Model sentences:

• Thus, in 1930 he saw “the revolutionary conquest of freedom.

• Rosselli was very much part of a political generation that also included the revolutionary liberal Piero Gobetti.

• He now spoke of the peasantry and the working class as the driving forces of the revolutionary process.\

Prefixes: Re = again

Root: volution = a rolling or revolving motion

Suffix: ary = person belonging to, connected with

Other Forms of the Word

Counterrevolutionary = anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it

Etymology:

Language of Origin: Latin

Geo graphing/ language of Origin/ etymology .

The word revolution derives from Late Latin revolutio- "a revolving," from Latin revolvere "turn, roll back". It entered English, from Old French révolution, in 1390

The definition of the word hasn't changed for me but I think it is cool that the word has been used for hundreds of years and on multiple occasions. The people that used the word have changed a lot. The word has been used all over the world.

It entered the English language, from Old French révolution, in 1390, originally only applied to celestial bodies. Revolutionary as a noun is first attested 1850, from the adjective.