industrial revolution

1. 1.

   the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

   Synonymstechnological revolution

   Broaderhistoric period

Questions about industrial revolution

What does industrial revolution mean?

industrial revolution means "the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation".

What is another word for industrial revolution?

Close synonyms include technological revolution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is industrial revolution a common word?

industrial revolution is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.