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Rebellion vs Revolution - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between rebellion and revolution

is that rebellion is armed resistance to an established government or ruler while revolution is a political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.

rebellion

English

(wikipedia rebellion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
    • The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.
  • (countable) Defiance]] of authority or control; the act of [[rebel, rebelling.
    • Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents.
  • (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
    • The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.

    Related terms

    *rebel *rebellious

    Antonyms

    *(defiance of authority or control) obedience, submission

    revolution

    English

    (wikipedia revolution)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
  • The removal and replacement of a government.
  • Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
  • * 1912 , P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control , The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
    • The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.
  • A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
  • * 1864 , D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography , Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:
    • The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis , and a yearly course around the sun.
  • * 1878 , George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics , Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, page 123:
    • Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution , on itself, producing torsion of the cervix
  • In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
  • A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

    • Usage notes

    * Astronomers today do not use (term) to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use (rotation) for that, and (term) only for the traversal of a body through an orbit (which also happens around some axis). (This may be somewhat customary, however, strictly speaking, using either word for either process would not be incorrect.)

    Antonyms

    * evolution

    Derived terms

    * revolutionary * revolutionize Compounds * agricultural revolution * artistic revolution * French Revolution * Industrial Revolution * solid of revolution * information revolution

    Related terms

    * revolve