révolutionnaire
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From révolution + -aire.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]révolutionnaire (plural révolutionnaires)
- (relational) of a revolution (in government); revolutionary
- 1873, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, with Paul Lafargue, L'Alliance Internationale de la Démocratie Socialiste et L'Association internationale des travailleurs, page 12; English translation from Richard Dixon, Alex Miller, transl., The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association (The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2-7, 1872; Minutes and Documents), 1976, page 517:
- Par [É]tat il [Bakounine] entend tout pouvoir politique, révolutionnaire on[sic – meaning ou] réactionnaire, […]
- By the state he [Bakunin] means all political power, revolutionary or reactionary, […]
- groundbreaking
Descendants
[edit]- → Persian: رولوسیونر (revolusiyoner)
- → Turkish: revolüsyoner
Noun
[edit]révolutionnaire m or f by sense (plural révolutionnaires)
- revolutionary
- un révolutionnaire démographique
- a demographic revolutionary
Descendants
[edit]- → Russian: революционе́р (revoljucionér)
Further reading
[edit]- “révolutionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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