Ryot vs Riot - What's the difference?
ryot | riot |
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
As nouns the difference between ryot and riot
is that ryot is a farmer or tiller of the soil while riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.As a verb riot is
to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.ryot
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Usage notes
The word does not find a place in several modern dictionaries, but is still used by general media, especially on the Indian sub-continent.References
*Anagrams
* * *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.