revolutionary

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Alberto Korda, it had hung largely unseen on Korda's wall until a radical Italian publisher disseminated it to draw attention to Guevara's plight; the revolutionary was then leading a doomed rebellion in

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  1. adjective Relating to or being a revolution: revolutionary war; a museum of the Revolutionary era.
  2. adjective Bringing about or supporting a political or social revolution: revolutionary pamphlets.
  3. adjective Marked by or resulting in radical change: a revolutionary discovery.

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  • The next morning the Moscow Pravda and the Izvestia denounced the action of the Printers' Union as counter-revolutionary, and raged about Tchernov having been permitted to speak. —  My Disillusionment in Russia
  • Évariste Galois combined dramatic work on the equation of the fifth degree with even more dramatic involvement in French revolutionary politics, culminating in a duel over a woman in which he was killed. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Zii is "revolutionary" -- in fact, it's about to change everything you know. —  Engadget
  • "What makes iMapWeather revolutionary is the merging of geographic map technology, weather conditions and social media into one beautiful map display," said Brian Blankenship, Balcom's interactive creative director.
  • Alberto Korda, it had hung largely unseen on Korda's wall until a radical Italian publisher disseminated it to draw attention to Guevara's plight; the revolutionary was then leading a doomed rebellion in —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
 

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  1. = French révolutionnaire = Spanish Portuguese revolucionario = Italian rivoluzionario; as revolution + -ary.
 

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/rɛvəˈljuʃənəri/
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