Associations to the word «Rebellion»

Wiktionary

REBELLION, noun. (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
REBELLION, noun. (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
REBELLION, noun. (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

Dictionary definition

REBELLION, noun. Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue".
REBELLION, noun. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan