rebellion
/rɪˈbɛljən
/noun
1An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader: the authorities put down a rebellion by landless colonials [mass noun]: the Bretons rose in rebellion against the King...
- There was indeed a subjective factor: a national consciousness expressed in several armed rebellions in defence of the Fueros.
- It was filled with murderous conquests, hate, rebellions, and revolutions.
- For now, there hasn't been any report on any uprisings or rebellions.
Synonyms
uprising, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, revolution, insurgence, insurgency, rising, rioting, riot;
civil disobedience, civil disorder, unrest, anarchy, fighting in the streets;
coup, regime change;
French coup d'état, jacquerie;
German putsch
1.1 [mass noun] The action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention: an act of teenage rebellion...
- Early in his life, he had converted to Catholicism, as a kind of teenage act of rebellion.
- The characters that fitted it best were outsiders, in rebellion against authority or their families.
- For example, any questioning of authority is treated as rebellion, and not trusting.
Synonyms
defiance, disobedience, rebelliousness, insubordination, mutinousness, subversion, subversiveness, resistance, dissent, nonconformity;
heresy, apostasy, schism, recusancy
archaic contumacy
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin rebellio(n-), from rebellis (see rebel).
Rhymes
- in one's own sweet time (or way)
- in one's own time
- in one's pelt
- in one's senses
- in (one's) shirtsleeves
- in (one's) stockinged feet
- in one's tracks
- in one's wildest dreams
- in open court
- inoperability
- inoperable
- inoperably
- inoperative
- inopportune
- inopportunely
- inopportuneness
- in opposition
- in (or at) a canter
- in (or at) one fell swoop
- in (or by) comparison
- in (or by) fits and starts
- in order
- in order for (or that)
- in order to do something
- in ordinary