riot

1. 1.

   take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot

   “Students were rioting everywhere in 1968”

   Broaderrampage
2. 2.

   engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

   “They were out carousing last night”

   Synonymscarouseroister

   Broaderrevel

Other forms of riot

plural

riots·

past tense

rioted·

present participle

rioting·

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.

Questions about riot

What does riot mean?

riot means "a public act of violence by an unruly mob". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in riot?

riot has 2 syllables: ri-ot. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪət/.

What is another word for riot?

Close synonyms include public violence, rioting, belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is riot a common word?

riot is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.