Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Open rebellion against constituted authority, especially rebellion of sailors against superior officers.
- intransitive verb To engage in mutiny.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To revolt against lawful authority, with or without armed resistance, especially in the army or navy; excite or be guilty of mutiny, or mutinous conduct.
- noun Forcible resistance to or revolt against constituted authority on the part of subordinates; specifically, a revolt of soldiers or seamen, with or without armed resistance, against the authority of their commanding officers.
- noun Any rebellion against constituted authority; by statute under British rule, any attempt to excite opposition to lawful authority, particularly military or naval authority, or any act of contempt directed against officers, or disobedience of their commands; any concealment of mutinous acts, or neglect to take measures toward a suppression of them.
- noun Tumult; violent commotion.
- noun Discord; strife.
- noun Synonyms and Sedition, Revolt, etc. See
insurrection .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.
- noun obsolete Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
- noun (Law) an English statute reënacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion.
- intransitive verb To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.
- intransitive verb obsolete To fall into strife; to quarrel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
organized rebellion against alegally constituted authority ; especially byseamen against theirofficers - verb To commit mutiny.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
- verb engage in a mutiny against an authority
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Once that happens, a mutiny is almost sure to follow as people start to jump off the sinking ship.
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In a way, from the standpoint of her personal welfare, the mutiny is the best thing that could have happened to her.
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In a way, from the standpoint of her personal welfare, the mutiny is the best thing that could have happened to her.
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"When the prisoners refused to be breathalysed they became violent along with other prisoners and went on what we call a mutiny, this is a prison mutiny."
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When the prisoners refused to be breathalysed they became violent along with other prisoners and went on what we call a mutiny, a prison mutiny.
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The crew decides mutiny is the answer -- which means Charlotte has to choose whose side she's on.
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The mutiny is not violating standards and precedents.
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What do you call a mutiny when it takes place on a storm-tossed ship of state?
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The mutiny is not violating standards and precedents.
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The fates were kind, just as they had been kind thirteen months previously, when for some six weeks the Channel seemed to be well-nigh defenceless, the crew of every man-of-war having recently been in mutiny, while a hostile fleet with thirteen thousand troops on board, lay at the Texel, waiting to embark.
dailyword commented on the word mutiny
This would sometimes happen on other starships in Star Trek.
June 12, 2012