- an act or state of armed resistance to one's government
- a defiance of or opposition to any kind of authority or control
Origin of rebellion
Middle English from Middle French from Classical Latin rebellio: see rebel
A rebellion against the tea tax implemented by the British to the American colonists was one of the reasons for the Boston Tea Party.
The definition of a rebellion is a resistance against something, particularly the government, authority or other controlling forces.
An example of a rebellion is a refusal by a large group of people to follow a law.
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noun
- a. Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government.b. An instance of this.
- a. Defiance toward an authority or established convention: an act of adolescent rebellion.b. An instance of this.
Origin of rebellion
Middle English from Old French from Latin rebelliō rebelliōn- from rebellāre to rebel ; see rebel .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural rebellions)
- (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
- The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.
- (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebeling.
- Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents.
- (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
- The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.
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Sentence Examples
- Alva was now free to deal with rebellion in the north.
- Anyway, he expired two days later in the guardhouse of the citadel of St Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for imagining rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the co-operation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.
- The Astrakhan rebellion (1706), which affected all the districts under his government, shook Peter's confidence in him, and seriously impaired his position.
- The country round is fertile and well cultivated, and the place must have been one of considerable wealth before the T'aip'ing rebellion, as the ruins of many fine temples attest.
- Jonathan had reached puberty in full rebellion, which was one of the reasons she didn't think he should have a cell phone.
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Words near rebellion in the dictionary
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