Definition of Great Revolt

1. Noun. A widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II.

Exact synonyms: Peasant's Revolt
Generic synonyms: Insurrection, Rebellion, Revolt, Rising, Uprising
Geographical relationships: England

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Revolt

Great Leap Forward
Great Lent
Great Mendenhall Glacier
Great Mother
Great Nebula in Andromeda
Great North Road
Great Plains
Great Plains of North America
Great Pox
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid at Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyrenees
Great Red Spot
Great Revolt (current term)
Great Rift Valley
Great Russian
Great Salt Lake
Great Sandy Desert
Great Satan
Great Seal
Great Seal of the United States
Great Sky River
Great Slave Lake
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Turk
Great Victoria Desert

Literary usage of Great Revolt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest by John Edward Lloyd (1912)
"THE Great Revolt. The great revolution in Welsh affairs which now took place was long remembered by the foreign settlers as a turning-point in the history ..."

2. Sketches of Rulers of India by George Devereux Oswell, William Wilson Hunter (1908)
"CHAPTER IV THE SUPPRESSION OF THE Great Revolt CLYDE (1792-1863) AND ... for without the work done by them in the suppression of the great revolt, ..."

3. The Story of the Church of Egypt: Being an Outline of the History of the by Edith Louisa Butcher (1897)
"... THE LAST Great Revolt OF THE COPTS (831) LD 785 IN 785 (AH 168-9) El Mahdi ebn Mansur died, and, his LH 168-9 eldest son following him in a few months, ..."

4. The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of by Thomas Wright (1861)
"... restored to the Empire by Constantius—Constantine the Great—Revolt of Magnentius—The Picts and Scots. BEFORE the tnd of the first century, ..."

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