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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Ignazio Silone

Meaning of "counter-revolution" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION

counter-revolution  [ˌkaʊntəˌrɛvəˈluːʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION

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adjective
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preposition
conjunction
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Counter-Revolution is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COUNTER-REVOLUTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

counter-revolution

Counter-revolutionary

A counter-revolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part. The adjective, "counter-revolutionary", pertains to movements that would restore the state of affairs, or the principles, that prevailed during a prerevolutionary era. A counter-revolution can be positive or negative in its consequences; depending, in part, on the beneficent or pernicious character of the revolution that gets reversed. For example, the transitory success of Agis and Cleomenes of ancient Sparta in restoring the constitution of Lycurgus was considered by Plutarch to be counter-revolutionary in a positive sense. During the French Revolution the Jacobins saw the Counter-revolution in the Vendée as distinctly negative.

Definition of counter-revolution in the English dictionary

The definition of counter-revolution in the dictionary is a revolution opposed to a previous revolution and aimed at reversing its effects.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUNTER-REVOLUTION


ablution
əˈbluːʃən
absolution
ˌæbsəˈluːʃən
Aleutian
əˈluːʃən
antipollution
ˌæntɪpəˈluːʃən
coevolution
kəʊˌiːvəˈluːʃən
convolution
ˌkɒnvəˈluːʃən
devolution
ˌdiːvəˈluːʃən
dilution
daɪˈluːʃən
dissolution
ˌdɪsəˈluːʃən
evolution
ˌiːvəˈluːʃən
high-resolution
haɪ ˌrezəˈluːʃən
involution
ˌɪnvəˈluːʃən
irresolution
ɪrˌrɛzəˈluːʃən
macroevolution
ˌmækrəʊˌiːvəˈluːʃən
microevolution
ˌmaɪkrəʊˌiːvəˈluːʃən
pollution
pəˈluːʃən
resolution
ˌrɛzəˈluːʃən
revolution
ˌrɛvəˈluːʃən
solution
səˈluːʃən
volution
vəˈluːʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUNTER-REVOLUTION

counter
counter hand
counter jumper
counter staff
counter-argument
counter-gambit
counter-inflationary
counter-order
Counter-Reformation
counter-revolutionaries
counter-revolutionary
counter-revolutionist
counter-shot
counter-stroke
counter-terrorist
counter-turn
counteract
counteraction
counteractive
counteractively

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUNTER-REVOLUTION

accreditation
attribution
caution
constitution
contribution
diminution
distribution
execution
First Amendment of the Constitution
high resolution
institution
New Year resolution
persecution
Poisson distribution
prosecution
prostitution
reconstitution
redistribution
restitution
retribution
substitution

Synonyms and antonyms of counter-revolution in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «counter-revolution» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION

Find out the translation of counter-revolution to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of counter-revolution from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «counter-revolution» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反革命
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contrarrevolución
570 millions of speakers

English

counter-revolution
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जवाबी क्रांति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الثورة المضادة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

контрреволюция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

contra-revolução
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাল্টা-বিপ্লব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

contre-révolution
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Balas revolusi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Konterrevolution
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

反革命
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반혁명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Counter-revolusi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự vận động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிர் புரட்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रति-क्रांती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karşı devrim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contro-rivoluzione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontrrewolucja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

контрреволюція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

contra - revoluție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντεπανάσταση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

teenrevolusie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kontrarevolutionen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kontrarevolusjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of counter-revolution

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTER-REVOLUTION»

The term «counter-revolution» is regularly used and occupies the 63.809 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTER-REVOLUTION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about counter-revolution

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2 QUOTES WITH «COUNTER-REVOLUTION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word counter-revolution.
1
Gary Ross
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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Ignazio Silone
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTER-REVOLUTION»

Discover the use of counter-revolution in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to counter-revolution and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Irish Counter-revolution, 1921-1936: Treatyite Politics ...
" Ronan Fanning, Sunday Independent "This is an excellent study, firmly grounded in original research, which sheds new light on this period." Fearghal McGarry, Irish Historical Studies
John M. Regan, 1999
2
Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Contemporary man is no longer anchored in certainties and thus has lost sight of who he is, where he comes from and where he is going. If there is a single book that can shed light amid the postmodern darkness, this is it.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 2008
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The Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, ...
Drawn from research, interviews and a wealth of firsthand experience, this analysis of the Arab Spring, a revolution that spread across the Arab world in 2011, provides the first clear glimpse of the post-revolutionary future and the ...
Lin Noueihed, Alex Warren, 2012
4
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s
These essays were originally published in 2000 and focus on United Irish propaganda and organisation before and during the 1798 rebellion.
Jim Smyth, 2000
5
Counter-revolution: The Second Civil War and Its Origins, 1646-8
Just as historians of the First Civil War have sought to explain how a weakened king was able to rally sufficient resources to go to war in 1642, so this book explains how royalists, decisively defeated in 1646, found the support to take up ...
Robert Ashton, 1994
6
The Mexican Revolution: Counter-revolution and reconstruction
In the closing pages, Alan Knight ponders the essential question: what had the revolution changed?
Alan Knight, 1990
7
The Burger Court : Counter-Revolution or Confirmation?: ...
The essays in this volume were gathered by the late Bernard Schwartz, one of America's most revered scholars of constitutional law and the editor of this book's well-received predecessor, The Warren Court: A Retrospective (OUP, 1996).
the late Bernard Schwartz former Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law University of Tulsa, 1998
8
Cleats of the Counter Revolution
The town of Pleasant Hill had never seen one of its ball players get an offer to play for a Major League team's farm-club when Joe Harmer's dreams to make it in the big league looked most promising.
Christ Kennedy, 2010
9
Putin's Preventative Counter-Revolution: Post-Soviet ...
This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president.
Robert Horvath, 2013
10
Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on ...
A few of these people did work together, such as the band of poets and poetry editors - most of them reactionary antimodernists - that the prolific Stanton Coblentz helped assemble under the banner of the League for Sanity in Poetry.
Alan Filreis, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTER-REVOLUTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term counter-revolution is used in the context of the following news items.
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The 'Trump bump': It's a familiar storyline
... University's Graduate School of Public Policy and the author of "The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989.". «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
SEP meetings oppose US-Australian war drive against China
The social counter-revolution now being imposed, he emphasised, could only be defeated through the mobilisation of the working class in ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 15»
3
Russell Moore: The Next Billy Graham Might Be Drunk Right Now …
... member right now, just like, come to think of it, the first Augustine of Hippo was," Moore wrote in Chapter 11, "A Gospel Counter-Revolution.". «Christian Post, Jul 15»
4
Flytrap to Breeding Ground
In Yemen, the Obama administration's civilian-slaughtering drone war, authoritarian counter-revolution against Yemen's Arab Spring, and ... «Antiwar.com, Jul 15»
5
NSSN conference calls on trade union leaders to take the necessary …
... the price because it opened the door to the neoliberal counter-revolution of cuts and privatisation carried out by successive governments. «Socialist Party, Jul 15»
6
SINGER: Decoding another national holiday — France's July 14
But in certain parts of the provinces many French people had had enough, amping up a counter-revolution amounting to a kind of civil war. «Niagara Gazette, Jul 15»
7
Egypt's second anniversary of the overthrow of Muhammed Morsi …
While Morsi said the goal of the decree was to protect the revolution from the counter-revolution, opponents called it a dictatorial decree and ... «The News Hub, Jul 15»
8
President Museveni emerged triumphant as opposition camp further …
... at national and regional scale, including more serious internal contradictions without any successful counter-revolution for three decades. «New Vision, Jul 15»
9
Counter measures to threats should respect rights, rule of law …
The Revolutionary Socialists stated that the former prosecutor was “among the most important figures of the counter-revolution regime, who ... «Daily News Egypt, Jul 15»
10
​The Pope and the Plowman
But if the Pope is calling for a revolution, it is really a counter-revolution, one in response to the excessss of an Industrial Revolution undertaken ... «First Things, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Counter-Revolution [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/counter-revolution>. Apr 2024 ».
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