Meaning of uprising | Babel Free
Definitions
- Excitement generated by a crowd, that disturbs the order or the peace.
- A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection
- A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.
- Revolved.
- present participle and gerund of uprise
Equivalents
Afrikaans
opstand
Беларуская
паўстанне
Български
въстание
বাংলা
বিদ্রোহ
བོད་སྐད
ངོ་རྒོལ་སྒེར་ལངས
Bosanski
бунт
Čeština
povstání
Ελληνικά
εξέγερση
Français
révolte
Hrvatski
бунт
Հայերեն
ապստամբություն
Íslenska
uppreisn
Italiano
rivolta
Қазақша
көтеріліс
Kurdî
îsyan
Кыргызча
көтөрүлүш
ລາວ
ການປະຕິວັດ
Latviešu
sacelšanās
Te Reo Māori
whananga
Македонски
востание
മലയാളം
ലഹള
Монгол
бослого
မြန်မာဘာသာ
အရေးတော်ပုံ
Nederlands
opstand
Polski
powstanie
Slovenčina
povstanie
Slovenščina
upor
Shqip
kryengritje
Српски
бунт
Українська
повста́ння
اردو
بغاوت
Oʻzbekcha
isyon
Examples
“WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.”
“But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down, terrorized the population, and culminated in the vehicular homicide of a local leftist woman”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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