Clues for the word "REVOLUTION"
We've had 13 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 13 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on November 24, 2025.
Definition of revolution
- n. - The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
- n. - Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
- n. - The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.
- n. - The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
- n. - The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.
- n. - A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
- n. - A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
Referring Clues
- *Beatles classic with the line "We all want to change the world"
- 1968 song with the lyric "We all want to change the world"
- One full turn
- Prince's band, once
- Political Beatles song
- Political uprising
- Heads rolled in this French affair
- See 5
- Our violent transformation
- See 18
- Rising, or just turning over?
- Rising, minister's answer: "No start to synod?"
- 5/6 ___ - title given to the BBC's recent series about Margaret Thatcher
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2017
- Guardian Prize - April 08, 2017
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 06, 2014
- Netword - May 03, 2013
- New York Times - June 18, 2012
- Guardian Quick - June 26, 2010
- LA Times - March 17, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - September 05, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - June 18, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - October 13, 2005