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Industrial Revolution Tweet Definition of Industrial Revolution Like Definition of Industrial Revolution on Facebook
noun industrial, Industrial revolution, Revolution
  1. the major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture
     
infanta Tweet Definition of infanta Like Definition of infanta on Facebook
noun 
  1. The daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal.
     
irredentist Tweet Definition of irredentist Like Definition of irredentist on Facebook
noun 
  1. Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries.
    • 2007: As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators. " Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, p. 630-1
adjective 
  1. Of or relating to irredentists or their policies.
     

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