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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rebellion has 2 senses
- rebellion(n = noun.act) Array - refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue" is a kind of resistance
- rebellion(n = noun.act) insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising - organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another; Array is a kind of battle, conflict, struggle
Derived forms verb rebel2, adjective rebellious2, adjective rebellious1
has particulars: insurgence, insurgency, intifada, intifadah, mutiny, great revolt, peasant's revolt, indian mutiny, sepoy mutiny
Derived forms verb rebel1, adjective rebellious2, adjective rebellious3
CIDE DICTIONARY
rebellion, n. [F. rébellion, L. rebellio. See Rebel, v. i. Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]"No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it." [1913 Webster]
- Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistance; contumacy. See Insurrection.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rebellion, n. open resistance to authority, esp. organized armed resistance to an established government.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L rebellio -onis (as REBEL)
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rebellion
anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, chaos, civil disorder, confusion, contumacy, criminal syndicalism, defiance, disobedience, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, emeute, general uprising, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, jacquerie, levee en masse, lynch law, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, mutiny, nihilism, ochlocracy, outbreak, peasant revolt, primal chaos, putsch, rebelliousness, resistance, revolt, revolution, riot, rising, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unruliness, uprisingROGET THESAURUS
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Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.
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