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prerevolution

prerevolution adjective: occurring before a period of revolution.

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

Synonyms of prerevolution

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Forms of prerevolution

alternative formpre-revolution

Origin of prerevolution

From pre- + revolution.

Questions about prerevolution

What does prerevolution mean?
Prerevolution means occurring before a period of revolution.
What part of speech is prerevolution?
Prerevolution is an adjective.

Words near prerevolution in the dictionary

  1. prereviewing
  2. prereviews
  3. prerevision
  4. prerevisionist
  5. prerevival
  6. prerevolution
  7. prerevolutionary
  8. prerheumatic
  9. prerhotic
  10. preribosomal
  11. preribosome

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