noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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UK:/ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
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US:rəvĭzh'ən
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Canada:/ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
Canada:[ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩]
Australian:/ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
Australian:[ɹəˈvɪʒ.n̩]
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rhymes with -ɪʒən
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 1
The process of revising:
The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix, The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, [...] .
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2
noun
Meaning 2
The process of revising:
The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!
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3
noun
Meaning 3
A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx, However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett′s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence′s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.
2008, World Bank, page 209, Previous editions of World Development Indicators used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.
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noun
Meaning 4
A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
A revision story
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5
verb
Meaning 5
To provide with a new vision.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.
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noun
Meaning 6
the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
it would require a drastic revision of his opinion
