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pre-revolution

pre-revolution is the alternative form of prerevolution.

Meaning of prerevolution

Adjective

prerevolution (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before a period of revolution.
    • The hero of “Inherent Vice” worries that “the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness,” that “everything in this dream of prerevolution was in fact doomed to end,” with the “faithless, money-driven world” reasserting...2009 August 4, Michiko Kakutani, “Another Doorway to the Paranoid Pynchon Dimension”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    postrevolution

Questions about pre-revolution

What is pre-revolution the alternative form of?
Pre-revolution is the alternative form of prerevolution.

Words near pre-revolution in the dictionary

  1. pre-rendered
  2. pre-rendering
  3. pre-renders
  4. pre-resurrection
  5. pre-resurrectional
  6. pre-revolution
  7. pre-revolutionary
  8. pre-rhotic
  9. pre-roll
  10. pre-Roman
  11. pre-Romanesque

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