Uprising

Definition: Uprising

Uprising

Noun

1. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.

Date "uprising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Multilingual Slang	Kurdish (serhildan). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Uprising

Synonyms: insurrection (n), rebellion (n), revolt (n), rising (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disobedience	Revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute; riot, tumult; (disorder); strike;(resistance); barring out; defiance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Uprising

English words defined with "uprising": ascend ♦ Baby Doc ♦ come up ♦ Denmark Vesey, Duvalier ♦ intifada ♦ Jean-Claude Duvalier ♦ quelled, quenched ♦ rise ♦ squelched, Sublevation ♦ uprise, Uprist ♦ Vesey. (references)

Specialty definitions using "uprising": convection cell, convection loop, convective cell ♦ diamond-drill sample, Drivers ♦ Visions. (references)

Etymologies containing "uprising": Uprist. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Uprising (2001)

Apache Uprising (1966)

Cheyenne Uprising (1962)

Frontier Uprising (1961)

Seminole Uprising (1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Uprising at Dawn (Between Two Flags, 5) (reference) Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Uprising (reference) Apache Uprising (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Uprising [Bonus Tracks] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Uprising X (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Messengers were sent to warn the settlers of the Indian uprising. Credit: Library of Congress.		Irish women parading through Dublin in memory of victims of 1916 Easter uprising. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Manned tank stationed outside Narodowy Bank Polski, surrounded by Polish civilians, during anticommunist uprising in Poznán, Poland. Credit: Library of Congress.		One room of old Trepagnier plantation house as it is today. This house is now occupied by Negroes. About 100 years ago this was the scene of an uprising on the part of Negro slaves. They were held off by M. Trepagnier until the arrival of military forces. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Autumn harvest uprising. Credit: Library of Congress.		1943-1973 : 30 years ago -- Warsaw ghetto uprising. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Jean Valjean, at that very moment, was a prey to a frightful uprising.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		A revolutionary military uprising on October 10, 1911, led to the abdication of the last Qing monarch. (references)
		The 1994 Chiapas uprising focused unprecedented attention on the demands of that state's indigenous persons for increased economic and social rights. (references)
Civil Liberties	Iraq	After the 1991 popular uprising, the Government relaxed some restrictions on Shi'a attending the schools. (references)
	Iraq	Shi'a groups report that they captured documents from the security services during the 1991 uprising that listed thousands of forbidden Shi'a religious writings. (references)
	Bulgaria	During the year, the citizens' association OMO-Ilinden attempted to hold a ceremony on July 29, near the town of Petrich, to commemorate the anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising. (references)
Economic History	Hungary	The ensuing battle quickly grew into a massive popular uprising. (references)
	Sri Lanka	The JVP uprising in the late 1980s caused extensive upheavals and economic uncertainty. (references)
	Belgium	In 1830, Belgium wrested its independence from the Dutch as a result of an uprising of the Belgian people. (references)
Human Rights	Philippines	The Government also filed rebellion charges against key opposition leaders for inciting the uprising. (references)
	Albania	Lushaj and Dollapi claimed to be detained on political grounds; they were charged with participation in an armed uprising to overthrow the constitutional order, and their trial was ongoing at year's end. (references)
	Iraq	According to reports by the U.N. Office of Project Services, the Mines Advisory Group, and Norwegian Peoples' Aid, landmines have killed more than 3,000 persons in the three northern governates since the 1991 uprising. (references)
Minorities	Iraq	In areas of the north under Kurdish control, classes in Syriac and Turkish have been permitted in primary schools run by Assyrian or Turkmen parties, since the 1991 uprising against the Government. (references)
Political Economy	Iraq	The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have controlled most areas in the three northern provinces of Erbil, Duhok, and Sulaymaniah since the Government withdrew its military forces and civilian administrative personnel from the area after the 1991 Kurdish uprising. (references)
Political Rights	Iraq	In the north, all central government functions have been performed by local administrators, mainly Kurds, since the Government withdrew its military forces and civilian administrative personnel from the area after the 1991 uprising. (references)
Travel	Cote D'ivoire	During 2000, there were several violent events including a two-day military mutiny over pay issues; a brutally suppressed demonstration staged by the opposition party; an assassination attempt against the military junta leader; a popular uprising following the October elections that ousted the military junta leader and then turned into armed conflict between ethnic groups; and a political demonstration that turned violent. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	The hard evidence of totalitarian rule has caused in mankind an uprising of the intellect and will.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Uprising" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uprising" is used about 375 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	375	14,556

Expression using "uprising": abort the uprising. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "uprising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		revoltë (rebellion, revolt), kryengritje (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, revolution, rising, sedition). (various references)

Arabic		‏ثورة (commotion, mutiny, outbreak, rampage, rebellion, revolt, revolution, rising, upheaval). (various references)

Bulgarian		ставане от легло, въстание (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, rise, rising), бунт (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, riot). (various references)

Chinese		起義 (insurrection, revolt), 起义. (various references)

Czech		vzpoura (insurgence, insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, revolt), vstávání, povstání (insurrection, rebellion, revolt, riot, rise, rising). (various references)

Farsi		قیام (Insurgence, Insurgency, Insurrection, Rise), طغیان (Insurgence, Insurgency, Insurrection, Mutation, Outbreak, Outburst, Outflow, Overflow, Rebellion, Revolt, Tornado), شورش (Insurgence, Insurgency, Insurrection, Muitiny, Mutation, Rebellion, Revolt, Revolution, Riot, Sedition, Uproar), بلوا (Riot, Uproar), برخیزش (Insurrection), برخاست (Rise). (various references)

French		soulèvement (upheaval, uplift), révolte. (various references)

German		Erhebung (census, elatedness, elevation, ennoblement, enquiry, exaltation, imposition, inquiry, investigation, levy, levying, mutiny, raising, revolt, rise, rising, survey, upheaval, uplift), Aufstand (agitation, fussbig, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, riot, rising, tumult). (various references)

Greek		εξέγερση (arousal, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising). (various references)

Hebrew		מר�" (insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt), תקומ�" (existence, rebirth, recovery, resistance, resurrection, revival, stand), �"תקוממות (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rising). (various references)

Hungarian		felkelés (arousal, bed sore, commotion, counter-move, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rise, rising). (various references)

Indonesian		kebangunan (awakening, renaissance). (various references)

Italian		sollevazione, sedizione (sedition), rivolta (defection, fracas, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, riot, rising). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蜂起 (revolt), �'起 (revolt), 事変 (accident, disaster, emergency, incident), 暴動 (insurrection, rebellion, revolt, riot), 反乱 (insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt), 変乱 (disturbance, war). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼうどう (acting blindly, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, riot), ほうき (abandonment, abdication, age, broom, fragrant scent, outstanding individual, renunciation, resignation, revolt, sweet seventeen, the law, treasured article or vessel), じへ�" (accident, disaster, emergency, incident), へ�"ら�" (disturbance, war), は�"ら�" (flood, insurrection, mutiny, overflowing, rebellion, revolt). (various references)

Pig Latin		isingupray

Portuguese		revolta (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, upheaval), rebelião (insurgence, insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, revolt), nascer (arise, be born, come, germinate, hatch, rise), insurreição (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, rising). (various references)

Romanian		rãzvrãtire (mutiny, rebellion, sedition), rãscoalã (mutiny, rebellion, revolt, riot, rising, sedition). (various references)

Russian		восстание (insurgency, insurrection, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, uprise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ustanak (insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprise), razvoj (consecution, deployment, development, evolvent, growth, making), dizanje (elevation, heave, heaving, lift, lifting, rise, rising, setting up). (various references)

Spanish		levantamiento (erection, insurgence, insurgency, lift, lifting, raising, rise). (various references)

Swedish		revolt (rebellion, revolt). (various references)

Turkish		yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, upsurge, upthrust), kalkma, kabarma (eruption, flow, ground swell, heave, heaving, intumescence, pulvinate, surge, surging, swell, swelling, upheaval, upsurge, upthrust), isyan (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, riot, rising, sedition), başkaldırma (disobedience, insubordination, insurrection, mutiny, opposition, rebellion, revolt), ayaklanma (breach of the peace, commotion, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, putsch, rebellion, revolt, riot, rising, upheaval). (various references)

Turkmen		gozgalaс (disquiet, unease). (various references)

Ukrainian		схід (dawning, rise, uprise), уставання. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thức dậy, sự đứng dậy sự lên cao, cuộc nổi dậy (revolt). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tumultu, tumultum, tumultus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "uprising": uprisings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Uprising" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prising, supprising, suprising, ubrising. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "uprising" (pronounced uprī"zing or u"prī'zing)
6	-p r ī" z i ng	comprising, surprising, unsurprising.
5	-r ī" z i ng	rising.
4	-ī" z i ng	advising, arising, chastising, decriminalizing, devising, disguising, revising, sensationalizing, sizing.
3	-z i ng	abusing, accusing, advertising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing.
6	-p r ī' z i ng	enterprising.
4	-ī' z i ng	advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, authorizing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, categorizing, centralizing, characterizing, colorizing, commercializing, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, generalizing, harmonizing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, organizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, penalizing, personalizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, unionizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing, womanizing.
3	-z i ng	abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: prising, pursing, spiring.
	-2 letters: pignus, purins, riping, rising, siping, siring, spring, sprung, spuing, unrigs, unrips.
	-3 letters: girns, grins, grips, iring, piing, pings, pirns, prigs, pungs, purin, puris, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, sirup, sprig, sprug, spurn, suing, unrig, unrip, using.
	-4 letters: gins, gips, girn, gnus, grin, grip, guns, iris, nips, nisi, pigs, ping, pins, pirn.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: suspiring, upraising, uprisings.
	+2 letters: disrupting, inpourings, surprising, surprizing, upstirring.
	+3 letters: pulverising, serpiginous, supervising, surprinting, uninspiring, unpromising, upbringings, upspringing.
	+4 letters: guardianship, outpromising, outsprinting, outstripping, pasteurising, pasteurizing, popularising, pressurising, pressurizing, prostituting, republishing, sulphurising, supercoiling, surprisingly, unsurprising.
	+5 letters: computerising, guardianships, guttersnipish, prussianising, prussianizing, serpiginously, superimposing, superinducing, superscribing, underpinnings, unpromisingly.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 70 72 69 73 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0072 0069 0073 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
uprising	50	bizarre uprising	3
the warsaw ghetto uprising	38	1976 soweto uprising	3
uprising warsaw	25	punk uprising	3
soweto uprising	10	ghetto uprising	3
underground uprising	10	attica prison uprising	2
boxer uprising	9	underground uprising zeppelin	2
texas uprising	7	the sioux uprising of 1862	2
uprising movie	7	5 pantie uprising	2
bob marley uprising	7	1956 hungarian uprising	2
record uprising	6	1857 uprising	2
irish uprising	5	mexica uprising	2
hungarian uprising	5	1943 ghetto uprising warsaw	2
easter uprising	5	palestinian uprising	2
sioux uprising	5	uprising rock climbing center	2
appalachian uprising	5	indian uprising	2
boy paxton uprising	4	square tiananmen uprising	2
1916 easter uprising	4	movie theme uprising	2
mau mau uprising	4	1953 berlin uprising	2
leelee sobieski uprising	4	led underground uprising zeppelin	2
stonewall uprising	4	suburban uprising	2
iran uprising	3	uprising at attica	2
chiapas uprising	3
		uprising at attica	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Uprising

Definition: Uprising

Uprising

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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Ronald Reagan

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Rhyming with "Uprising"

Anagrams: Uprising

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Uprising

55 70 72 69 73 69 6E 67

..- .--. .-. .. ... .. -. --.

01010101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111

&#85 &#112 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103

0055 0070 0072 0069 0073 0069 006E 0067

5582847585758073

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