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Definition of Revolutions
1. Noun. (plural of revolution) As the turnings of a motor, or the overthrowing of a government. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revolutions
1. revolution [n] - See also: revolution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revolutions
Literary usage of Revolutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"To Find the Number of revolutions of the Engine to Drive a Vessel at a Certain
Speed.* P = pitch of the propeller in feet S = required speed in knots R ..."
2. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. by Thomas Paine (1791)
"It is an age of revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for. ... than once
were the revolutions and alliance of France and America. FINIS. ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1899)
"CHAPTER XXXIV WARFARE AND revolutions AMONG DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES »Why great
revolutions will become more rare—Why democratic nations are naturally desirous of ..."
4. Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain by Edmund Burke (1790)
"From what we now fee, nothing of reform in the political world ought to be held
improbable. It is an age of revolutions, in which every thing may be looked ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"But Burke forgot his Greek :— Talking of revolutions,—how hot the noon of the
... We, too, are in the present tense with Europe ; for the revolutions of ..."
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