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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King