boxer rebellion
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1899 and 1901.
Example Sentences
- "Young Major Leonard, with only one arm (the other lost during the Boxer rebellion in China), Mr. John Lodge and a charming young Italian named Gherardesca, and many others, made these visits stand out in my memory."
- "According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province."