Other forms: uprisings
An uprising is a revolt by people against those in power. A popular uprising, crush the uprising, an armed uprising.
It is spontaneous and local where a revolution is sustained and general, which is roughly how historians use the two — and which word gets used often depends on whether it succeeded. Note that the word is up plus rising, and that risings and revolts are the older English words for the same thing.
1nounuprisingA revolt by people against those in power.
“The uprising began when soldiers refused to fire on the protesters.”
uprising is a revolt.
by surface analysis, uprise + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA