Prerevolution
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prerevolution is an adjective meaning Occurring before a period of revolution.
Meaning
Occurring before a period of revolution.
Example Sentences
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 “its control over all the lives it felt entitled to touch, fondle and molest.”
Word Forms
- pre-revolution
Synonyms for prerevolution
Depending on context, synonyms include prerevolutionary.
Antonyms for prerevolution
Common opposites include postrevolution.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prerevolutionary, pre-revolutionary, prerebellion, anterevolutionary, prerevival, precrisis.
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