mutiny Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
  2. verb engage in a mutiny against an authority

WordNet

Mu"ti*ny noun
Etymology
From mutine to mutiny, fr. F. se mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. movita, fr. movitus, for L. motus, p.p. of movere to move. See Move.
Wordforms
plural Mutinies
Definitions
  1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.
    In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. Macaulay.
  2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife. Obs.
    o raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves. Shak.
    Wharton. Syn. -- See Insurrection.
Mu"ti*ny intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mutinied ; present participle & verbal noun Mutinying
Definitions
  1. To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.
  2. To fall into strifle; to quarrel. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913