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say it: ri-BEH-lyuhn
rebellion is a noun meaning "refusal to accept some authority or code or convention". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈbɛljən/ — ri-BEH-lyuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
“each generation must have its own rebellion”
“his body was in rebellion against fatigue”
organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rebellion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.