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What does rebellion mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rebellion? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
  2. (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
  3. (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
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Initially as surprised as everyone else, the Mexican army soon recovered and violently quelled the rebellion.
Contemporary art, just like a lot of Joycean literature, became a rebellion, because they are saying we define art by that which is not art.
Unless the rebellion is put down quickly, and without shedding too much blood in the process, their political position could be destroyed.
In his place they sent Colonel Lachlan Macquarie who arrived in 1810 with a regiment to quell the rebellion.
The goldfields rebellion did not last very long and government forces quickly overran the Eureka stockade.
They were breaking with the status quo, upsetting the apple cart, taking part in a 60s style rebellion against the establishment.

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