Usually means: Violent uprising against governmental authority.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. insurrection: Merriam-Webster
  2. insurrection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insurrection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insurrection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insurrection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insurrection, insurrection: Wordnik
  7. insurrection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insurrection: Wiktionary
  9. insurrection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insurrection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insurrection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. insurrection: Dictionary.com
  13. insurrection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. insurrection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Insurrection (Forgotten Realms novel), Insurrection (O'Flaherty novel), Insurrection (Reid novel), Insurrection (TV series), Insurrection (Young novel), Insurrection (album), Insurrection (comics), Insurrection (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Insurrection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. insurrection: Rhymezone
  18. Insurrection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. insurrection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. insurrection: FreeDictionary.org
  21. insurrection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. insurrection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. insurrection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. Insurrection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  25. insurrection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. insurrection: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. insurrection: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insurrection: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insurrection: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See insurrectional as well.)

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noun:  (uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.

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