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say it: kown-tur-reh-vuh-LOO-shuhn
counterrevolution is a noun meaning "a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution". It carries one recorded sense.
a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for counterrevolution come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.