counterrevolution

English

Alternative forms

• counter-revolution, counter revolution

Etymology

From counter- +‎ revolution.

Pronunciation

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Noun

counterrevolution (countable and uncountable, plural counterrevolutions)

1. A revolution aiming to reverse the political or social changes instigated by a previous revolution.

   The military leaders behind the original coup were executed in the aftermath of the counterrevolution.

   • 2014 March 23, Patrick Kingsley, “Egypt's spring 2014: is the counter-revolution now complete?”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     Egypt's spring 2014: is the counter-revolution now complete? [title]

   • 2020 May 26, David Sirota, “Democrats are fueling a corporate counter-revolution against progressives”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     This corporate counter-revolution is easiest to see in Democrats’ enthusiastic support for Republicans’ legislative response to the coronavirus crisis.

Derived terms

• counterrevolutionary
• counterrevolutionist

Translations

revolution to reverse effects of previous revolution

• Armenian: հակահեղափոխություն (hy) (hakaheġapʻoxutʻyun)
• Basque: kontrairaultza
• Belarusian: контррэвалю́цыя f (kontrrevaljúcyja)
• Bulgarian: контрареволю́ция f (kontrarevoljúcija)
• Carpathian Rusyn: контрареволу́ція f (kontrarevolúcija)
• Catalan: contrarevolució f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反革命 (zh) (fǎngémìng)

• Czech: kontrarevoluce f
• Dutch: contrarevolutie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kontraŭrevolucio f
• Finnish: vastavallankumous (fi)
• French: contre-révolution (fr) f
• German: (general) Gegenrevolution (de) f; (chiefly Marxism) Konterrevolution (de) f
• Greek: αντεπανάσταση (el) f (antepanástasi)
• Hungarian: ellenforradalom (hu)
• Indonesian: kontra revolusi (id)
• Irish: frithréabhlóid f
• Kazakh: контрреволюция (kontrrevolüsiä), контртөңкеріс (kontrtöñkerıs), қарсы төңкеріс (qarsy töñkerıs)
• Polish: kontrrewolucja (pl) f
• Portuguese: contrarrevolução (pt) f
• Russian: контрреволю́ция (ru) f (kontrrevoljúcija)
• Spanish: contrarrevolución f
• Swedish: kontrarevolution (sv), motrevolution (sv) c
• Ukrainian: контрреволю́ція f (kontrrevoljúcija)