American English pronunciation
How to pronounce rebellion
IPA transcription: [ɹɪ'bɛljən]
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Noun
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organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
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refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
“each generation must have its own rebellion”
“his body was in rebellion against fatigue”
Usage examples
- Dazaifu ordered Koremune Shigehisa to stop the rebellion and to destroy the Abiru clan.
- The Klingons stop the Cardassian rebellion and occupy their homeworld, Cardassia Prime.
- The chronicles do not elucidate the motives for the rebellion.
- The aftermath of Kato's rebellion was disastrous.
- He was arrested and charged with complicity in the rebellion.
- But Yazdegerd's policy created, rather than forestalled, a Christian rebellion in Armenia.
- He also served during Pontiac's Rebellion.
- Stuart and Israel Green put down the rebellion.
- Here he helped to suppress a local rebellion against the Maharaja, Gulab Singh.
- After the rebellion, Go-Shirakawa ruled Japan by himself.