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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government.
  2. n. An act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. War waged against a government by some part of its subjects; armed opposition to a government by a party of citizens, for the purpose of changing its composition, constitution, or laws; insurrectionary or revolutionary war.
  2. n. The act of rebelling or taking part in a rebellious movement; open or armed defiance to one's government; the action of a rebel.
  3. n. Hence Revolt against or defiance of authority in general; resistance to a higher power or to an obligatory mandate; open disobedience or insubordination; determination not to submit.
  4. n. Synonyms Sedition, Revolt. etc. See insurrection.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
  2. n. countable Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebeling.
  3. n. countable An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.
  2. n. Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
  2. n. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rebelliō, rebelliōn-, from rebellāre, to rebel; see rebel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The express language of it is: 'By virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a _fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion_.”

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

  • “The term rebellion can never be properly applied to the conduct of a State, acting (through a convention) in its sovereign capacity.”

    The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.

  • “States in seceding as they did, (through regular conventions,) makes the term rebellion inapplicable to their conduct.”

    The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.

  • “It even gets better, as Locke explains the term rebellion:”

    The Virtuous Republic

  • “Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of”

    The Surgeon's Daughter

  • “And as long as the rebellion is active, it will have to be checked, just as the Kikuyu revolt in Kenya had to be checked.”

    The Algerian Issue

  • “I promise you never henceforth to offend your cause except in that mere woman's sympathy with what you call rebellion, for which women are not so much as banished by you -- or if they are, then banish me!”

    The Cavalier

  • “When the battle was over, Samuel came to meet him, and rebuked him as if he had been a child for what he called rebellion and stubbornness.”

    Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers

  • “First the help of the Romans was asked and readily given; then in return a tribute was demanded and paid; then the Romans would meddle with the government, till their interference became intolerable, and there was a rising against it, which they called rebellion; then they sent an army, and ruined the nation for ever.”

    The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children

  • “Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of Hippocrates.”

    The Surgeon's Daughter

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. revolt
  1. insurrection
  1. contumacy
  1. sedition
  1. resistance
  1. mutiny
  1. insurgence
  1. disobedience

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. resistance

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. revolt
  2. insurrection
  3. revolution
  1. hostility
  2. discontent
  3. violence
  1. jealousy
  2. conflict
  3. outrage
  1. conspiracy
  2. invasion
  3. treason
  1. opposition
  2. disturbance
  3. misery
  1. oppression

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Trevelyan

reverse dictionary (100)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mutiny
  2. insurgence
  3. insurgency
  4. Peasants' Revolt
  5. great revolt
  6. war
  7. rebel
  8. rebellious
  9. earl marshal of scotland
  10. put
  11. instigative
  12. unsuppressed
  13. black flags
  14. rebeldom
  15. rebelly
  16. venerandas
  17. gasoline-related
  18. Bridgewater-Raynham's
  19. Aguinaldo
  20. Shays
  1. barringout
  2. copperheadism
  3. fosterer
  4. gainsaying
  5. Hyde
  6. Gordon
  7. North
  8. Monmouth
  9. Cade
  10. Tianjin
  11. Suzhou
  12. isolated
  13. Tzu Hsi
  14. Zhu De
  15. Qing
  16. Manco Capac
  17. Jamestown
  18. Hamilcar Barca
  19. Harpers Ferry
  20. Dublin
  1. sedition
  2. romanticism
  3. uprising
  4. anthropogentic
  5. freedom fighter
  6. Riel
  7. Castlereagh
  8. stem
  9. Percy
  10. Pontiac
  11. rabble-rousing
  12. rise
  13. rise up
  14. second earl of guilford
  15. seditious
  16. simon de montfort
  17. sir henry percy
  18. turner
  19. Turner
  20. crush
  1. Adams
  2. Bacon
  3. quash
  4. repress
  5. Taylor
  6. Ireland
  7. revolt
  8. Berkeley
  9. parent
  10. Constantine I
  11. stamp
  12. divine right
  13. divine right of kings
  14. earl of leicester
  15. frederick north
  16. hotspur
  17. inflammatory
  18. Montfort
  19. nat turner
  20. north
  1. arise
  2. black and tan
  3. boxer
  4. harry hotspur
  5. incendiary
  6. incitive
  7. insurgent
  8. insurrectionist
  9. taiping
  10. copperhead
  11. dormant
  12. down
  13. drive
  14. fan
  15. insurrection
  16. lamb
  17. light
  18. likin
  19. reconcentrado
  20. yank

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  • bilby "In Orwell's dystopia, 'the sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion.' So it is in Wearside in 2009, where the excessively noisy exploits of Cartwright and her possibly very talented partner are a form of rebellion against the arbitrary and interventionist nature of the ASBO-wielding powers-that-be. They are screwing for liberty."
    - Brendan O'Neill, Disturbing the Peace, reason.com, 11 May 2009. May 13, 2009

  • anydelirium 'All rebellion begins in isolation.' -Dave Edwards Feb 19, 2008

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