| insurrection |
| 1. n. A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority; a mutiny; a rebellion. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| rebellion |
| 1. n. Armed resistance to an established government or ruler. | |
| The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country. | |
| 2. n. Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling. | |
| Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
