insurrection

From Middle French insurrection, from Late Latin insurrectio

• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

insurrection (countable and uncountable, plural insurrections)

1. A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority; a mutiny; a rebellion.

• insurrectionist
• insurrectionary

Borrowed from Late Latin īnsurrectiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sy.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃/

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insurrection f (plural insurrections)

1. insurrection

   Synonym: soulèvement

• insurger
• résurrection

• “insurrection” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).