Alternative form of prerevolutionary. [Occurring before a revolution.]
pre-revolutionary
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pre-revolutionary.
Editorial note
Russian-speaking users can choose between the standard Russian version and two extras: a Soviet version and a Pre-Revolutionary version.
Quick take
Alternative form of prerevolutionary. [Occurring before a revolution.]
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pre-revolutionary.
adjective
Alternative form of prerevolutionary. [Occurring before a revolution.]
Example sentences
Russian-speaking users can choose between the standard Russian version and two extras: a Soviet version and a Pre-Revolutionary version.
Think about your stereotypes of a vanished upper class, any upper class - for instance, the pre-revolutionary French nobility.
It's not like pre-Revolutionary America was a notably secure place that inevitably see-sawed into a freer but insecure place afterwards.
Just as in pre-Revolutionary France, there is a very strict class hierarchy, and the very idea that we are equal before the law is a laughable nonsequitr.
Go look at the economic flows (not the details, just the gross flows of resources) between master and servant in pre-revolutionary france...
This was 5 years ago and one year ago, so it's not pre-revolutionary nostalgia.
It's wrapped up in the pre-revolutionary context the country was founded on.
Sometimes, I wonder if I'm getting a little flavor of what pre-revolutionary Paris was like.
The pre-revolutionary French assembly, the Estates-General, received complaints from all regions of France and from all classes of society about this invasion of their thoughts.
And pre-revolutionary Imperial Russia was not an example of unfettered capitalism.
I'm quite obviously Bangladeshi while my wife is quite obviously a pre-Revolutionary War British American whose family settled Oregon during the wagon-trail era.
That'll last until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood about the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
Quote examples
The term "Tiers Monde" was coined in an essay by Sauvy specifically making the analogy to the Tiers Etat (third estate) of pre-revolutionary France.
Let's see the NSA is the Stasi...he also mentioned pre-revolutionary France...the right wing mind loves dreaming that we might have a revolution...and then all the "serfs" that haven't been "disarmed" will throw off their shitty jobs and fight fer freedum!
The author describes the old, pre-revolutionary way of doing mathematics as "relying on intuition and physical experience." In certain fields, such as algebra and number theory, the old way of doing it had another important trait: to prove the existence of something, such as the greatest common divisor or the unique factorization of a polynomial, one had to give an algorithm to construct it.
This is wrong on a number of levels; the US wasn't designed from the ground up -- at the ground level, and the whole way up to the level of the States, it was a pretty direct carry over from the pre-revolutionary structure under British colonial rule, with the "colonies" renamed "states".
Proper noun examples
Pre-revolutionary literature could only be subjected to ideological translation—that is, alteration in sense as well as language.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pre-revolutionary in a sentence?
Russian-speaking users can choose between the standard Russian version and two extras: a Soviet version and a Pre-Revolutionary version.
What does pre-revolutionary mean?
Alternative form of prerevolutionary. [Occurring before a revolution.]
What part of speech is pre-revolutionary?
pre-revolutionary is commonly used as adjective.