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Webster 1913 Edition

Unrest

Un-rest′

,

Noun.

Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.

Is this, quoth she, the cause of your

unrest

!

Chaucer.

Can calm despair and wild

unrest

Be tenants of a single breast?

Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Unrest

UNREST'

,

Noun.

Unquietness; uneasiness. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

unrest

unrest

English

Noun

unrest ‎(usually uncountable, plural unrests)

A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.

Derived terms

civil unrest

Translations

state of trouble

Afrikaans: onrus
Albanian: shqetësi f
Armenian: խռովություն (hy) ‎(xṙovutʿyun), հուզում (hy) ‎(huzum)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動亂 (zh), 动乱 (zh) ‎(dòngluàn), 動蕩 (zh) or 動盪 (zh), 动荡 (zh) ‎(dòngdàng)
Danish: uro c
Dutch: onrust (nl) c
French: agitation (fr)
Georgian:
German: Unruhen (de) f pl

Japanese: 動乱 (ja) ‎(どうらん, dōran), 動揺 (ja) ‎(どうよう, dōyō)
Latgalian: jukums
Latvian: jukas
Norwegian: uro (no) c
Persian: بلوا (fa) ‎(balvâ)
Polish: zamieszki (pl) pl
Portuguese: inquietação (pt) f
Russian: беспоря́дки (ru) m pl ‎(besporjádki), волне́ния (ru) n pl ‎(volnénija)
Scottish Gaelic: mì-shuaimhneas m
Swedish: oro (sv) c
Turkish:

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