1 [usuallybeforenoun] connected with political revolution:
a revolutionary leader / movement * revolutionary uprisings
2 involving a great or complete change:
a revolutionary idea * a time of rapid and revolutionary change * revolutionary advances in medicine * The effects of technological development are revolutionary.
noun (plural revolutionaries) a person who starts or supports a revolution, especially a political one:
socialist / student revolutionaries
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