Riot vs Mutiny - What's the difference?
riot | mutiny |
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
* Shakespeare
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
* Chaucer
* Alexander Pope
To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
(obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
* Macaulay
Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
* Shakespeare
To commit mutiny.
As nouns the difference between riot and mutiny
is that riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult while mutiny is an organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.As verbs the difference between riot and mutiny
is that riot is to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition while mutiny is to commit mutiny.riot
English
(wikipedia riot)Noun
(en noun)- His headstrong riot hath no curb.
- Venus loveth riot and dispense.
- the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Derived terms
* rioter * run riotVerb
(en verb)- The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
- No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.
Anagrams
* * * *mutiny
English
Noun
(wikipedia mutiny) (mutinies)- In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader.
- Raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
Verb
- The crew of the Bounty mutinied because of the harsh discipline of Captain Bligh.
