nhà cách mạng
Definition
- Noun:
- A revolutionary: A person who is professionally or deeply engaged in revolutionary activities, aiming to fundamentally and radically change a political system or social order.
- A revolutionary figure: An individual recognized for leading, participating in, or significantly contributing to a revolution.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Hồ Chí Minh là một nhà cách mạng vĩ đại. (Ho Chi Minh was a great revolutionary.)
- Nhiều nhà cách mạng đã hy sinh vì độc lập dân tộc. (Many revolutionaries sacrificed themselves for national independence.)
- Bà ấy không chỉ là một nhà thơ mà còn là một nhà cách mạng. (She was not only a poet but also a revolutionary.)
Advanced Usage
- The term often implies a level of ideology, commitment, and active struggle against an established regime or oppressive system. It carries a connotation of principled dedication to a cause aimed at systemic overthrow or transformation.
Variants and Related Words
- Cách mạng (n): revolution.
- Cuộc cách mạng công nghiệp (The industrial revolution).
- Nhà hoạt động cách mạng (n): revolutionary activist. A more explicit phrase with the same core meaning.
- Nhà cách mạng chuyên nghiệp (n): professional revolutionary.
Synonyms
- Revolutionary: The direct synonym, a person who advocates or engages in political revolution.
- Insurrectionist: A person who rises in active revolt against authority.
- Radical: A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform.
Related Idioms
- While "nhà cách mạng" itself is not typically part of a common idiom, it is central to phrases describing revolutionary spirit or action.
- Tinh thần cách mạng: revolutionary spirit.
- Sự nghiệp cách mạng: revolutionary cause/career.