mutiny
pronunciation
How to pronounce mutiny in British English:
UK [ˈmju:təni]
How to pronounce mutiny in American English:
US [ˈmjutni]
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- Noun:
- open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
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- Verb:
- engage in a mutiny against an authority
Word Origin
- mutiny
- mutiny: [16] Etymologically, a mutiny is simply a ‘movement’. The word was adapted from the now obsolete mutine, a borrowing from French mutin ‘rebellion’. This in turn was a derivative of an earlier muete, literally ‘movement’, hence ‘rebellion’ (remembered in English in the related émeute ‘uprising’), which came from Vulgar Latin *movita, a descendant of Latin movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).=> émeute, motion, move
- mutiny (n.)
- 1560s, with noun suffix -y (4) + obsolete verb mutine "revolt" (1540s), from Middle French mutiner "to revolt," from meutin "rebellious," from meute "a revolt, movement," from Vulgar Latin *movita "a military uprising," from fem. past participle of Latin movere "to move" (see move (v.)).
- mutiny (v.)
- 1580s, from mutiny (n.). Alternative mutine is recorded from 1550s. Related: Mutinied; mutinying.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It may be time for the owners of banks to mutiny over the bounty .
- 2. State television has denied that any mutiny took place and blamed " terrorist " groups in the area .
- 3. Yet mrs merkel probably achieved enough in brussels to avoid mutiny in berlin .
- 4. He recorded a video on board his ship , announcing his defection and calling on other military officers to join his mutiny .
- 5. Talk of mutiny within her coalition has subsided since the bundestag voted overwhelmingly in favour of bail-outs for peripheral euro zone countries late last year .