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Velvet Revolution

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any non-violent political revolution, especially the events in Czechoslovakia that led to the velvet divorce.

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  • Armenian: թավշյա հեղափոխություն (tʻavšya heġapʻoxutʻyun) — any non-violent political revolution
  • Chinese Mandarin: 天鵝絨革命 /天鹅绒革命 (tiān'éróng gémìng) — any non-violent political revolution
  • Czech: sametová revoluce — any non-violent political revolution
  • Estonian: sametrevolutsioon — any non-violent political revolution
  • Finnish: samettivallankumous — any non-violent political revolution
  • French: révolution de velours — any non-violent political revolution
  • German: Samtene Revolution — any non-violent political revolution
  • Japanese: ビロード革命 (birōdo kakumei) — any non-violent political revolution
  • Russian: ба́рхатная револю́ция (bárxatnaja revoljúcija) — any non-violent political revolution
  • Slovak: nežná revolúcia — any non-violent political revolution
  • Swedish: sammetsrevolutionen — any non-violent political revolution
  • Turkish: kadife devrim — any non-violent political revolution