revolver

From revolve +‎ er, coined by American inventor Samuel Colt in 1835.^[1]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɒl.vɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlvə(ɹ)

revolver (plural revolvers)

2. (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.

   Synonyms: wheelgun, (US, slang, archaic) smoke wagon

   Hypernyms: pistol (broad sense), handgun < firearm < gun < ranged weapon < weapon

   Hyponyms: six-gun, six-shooter

   Coordinate terms: pistol (precise sense), rifle; see also Thesaurus:firearm

3. (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
4. (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
   • 2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:

     The debt is split between $6.5bn of term loans, as well as $6bn of senior and junior bonds and a $500mn revolver.

5. Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.

• revolver flower
• service revolver
• snubnosed revolver

• revolver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English revolver.

revolver

1. revolver pistol

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛvolvɛr]

revolver m inan

1. revolver (handgun)

• See voluta

• “revolver”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “revolver”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English revolver.

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revolver m (plural revolvers, diminutive revolvertje n)

1. revolver

• vuistvuurwapen

Borrowed from English revolver.

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.vɔl.vɛʁ/

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revolver m (plural revolvers)

1. revolver (gun)

• poche-revolver

• “revolver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “revolver” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Borrowed from English revolver.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛvolvɛr]
• Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver
• Rhymes: -ɛr

revolver (plural revolverek)

1. revolver

• revolveres

• revolver in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• revolve
• revolvere
• revolvero

Borrowed from English revolver.

• IPA^(key): /reˈvɔl.ver/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔlver
• Hyphenation: re‧vòl‧ver

revolver m (invariable)

1. revolver (handgun)

   Synonyms: pistola a tamburo, pistola a rotazione, rivoltella, (dialectal) revorbaro

2. rotating attachment, on a camera, having multiple lenses

Borrowed from English revolver.

revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolvere, definite plural revolverne)

1. a revolver

   Han fikk tak i en revolver.

   He got hold of a revolver.

• “revolver” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English revolver.

revolver m (definite singular revolveren, indefinite plural revolverar, definite plural revolverane)

1. a revolver

   Han fekk tak i ein revolver.

   He got hold of a revolver.

• “revolver” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin revolvere (“to turn over, to roll back, to reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”).

• Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver

revolver (first-person singular present revolvo, first-person singular preterite revolvi, past participle revolvido, short past participle revolto)

1. to turn over (e.g., earth)
2. to roll (the eyes)
3. to go through (e.g., archives)

• “revolver”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “revolver”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “revolver”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “revolver”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

revolver m (plural revolveres)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of revólver.

Borrowed from French revolver.

revolver n (plural revolvere)

1. revolver, pistol

Borrowed from English revolver.

• IPA^(key): /reʋǒlʋer/
• Hyphenation: re‧vol‧ver

revòlver m inan (Cyrillic spelling рево̀лвер)

1. revolver

Inherited from Latin revolvere (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back, again”) + volvō (“roll”). Cognate with English revolve although a false friend.

• IPA^(key): /rebolˈbeɾ/ [re.β̞olˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: re‧vol‧ver

revolver (first-person singular present revuelvo, first-person singular preterite revolví, past participle revuelto)

1. to stir, to mix
2. to jumble up, to disarrange
3. to turn over, to poke about, to rummage around in
4. to consider, to turn over, to ponder
5. to disturb, to stir up, to upset
6. to swing around
7. to wrap, to wrap up
8. to turn 360 degrees, to revolve

• Revolver is a false friend and does not mean a type of gun in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of revolver is revólver.

• “revolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English revolver.

revolver c

1. a revolver (firearm)

• revolverman (“gunslinger”)

• revolver in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• revolver in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• revolver in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)