English-Dutch translations for revolution

• revolutie
  We wakkeren geen revolutie aan. We are not fomenting revolution.
  Dit is een Libische revolutie en het moet een Libische revolutie blijven. It is a Libyan revolution and it has to remain a Libyan revolution.
  Maar toen kwam de Arabische revolutie. But then the Arab Revolution came.
• omwenteling
  Elke omwenteling vertoont echter vooral ook psychologische aspecten. But behind every revolution lie the specific psychological aspects.
  Nu er een omwenteling in Kirgizstan is, moeten we die benutten. Now that a revolution in Kyrgyzstan is underway, we should capitalise on it.
  Op dit ogenblik maken wij een omwenteling mee die onze traditionele houding grondig verandert.Indeed, we are currently undergoing a revolution which is vastly upsetting our traditional attitudes.

Definition of revolution

• A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change
• Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis
• A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation
• In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body
• A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year

Related words

• revolutionary
• revolutionize
• revolutionise
• counterrevolutionary
• counterrevolution
• revolutionist
• prerevolutionary
• ultrarevolutionary
• postrevolutionary