Usually means: Opposition to an existing revolution.
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  1. counterrevolution: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterrevolution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterrevolution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterrevolution: Vocabulary.com
  5. Counterrevolution, counterrevolution: Wordnik
  6. counterrevolution: Wiktionary
  7. counterrevolution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. counterrevolution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. counterrevolution: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. counterrevolution: Dictionary.com
  11. Counterrevolution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. counterrevolution: Rhymezone
  13. counterrevolution: FreeDictionary.org
  14. counterrevolution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. counterrevolution: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Sociology (No longer online)

(Note: See counterrevolutionary as well.)

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noun:  A revolution aiming to reverse the political or social changes instigated by a previous revolution.

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