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say it: rev-uh-LOO-shuhn
revolution is a noun meaning "a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
“the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution”
the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
“the plane made three rotations before it crashed”
“the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year”
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 revolution 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.