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Noun: Great Revolt
  1. A widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II
    - Peasants' Revolt, Peasant's Revolt

Type of: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising

Encyclopedia: Great Revolt