Riot vs. Ryot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Riot and Ryot
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Definitions
Riot
A riot () is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private.
Ryot
Ryot (alternatives: raiyat, rait or ravat) (Urdu: راعیت) was a general economic term used throughout India for peasant cultivators but with variations in different provinces. While zamindars were landlords, raiyats were tenants and cultivators, and served as hired labour.A raiyat was defined as someone who has acquired a right to hold land for the purpose of cultivating it, whether alone or by members of his family, hired servants, or partners.
Riot
A wild or turbulent disturbance created by a large number of people.
Ryot
(India) A farmer or tiller of the soil.
Riot
(Law) A violent disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled for a common purpose.
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Ryot
A peasant or cultivator of the soil.
The Indian ryot and the Egyptian fellah work for less pay than any other laborers in the world.
Riot
An unrestrained outbreak, as of laughter or passions.
Riot
A profusion
The garden was a riot of colors in August.
Riot
Unrestrained merrymaking; revelry.
Riot
Debauchery.
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Riot
(Slang) An irresistibly funny person or thing
Isn't she a riot?.
Riot
To take part in a riot.
Riot
To live wildly or engage in uncontrolled revelry.
Riot
To waste (money or time) in wild or wanton living
"rioted his life out, and made an end" (Tennyson).
Riot
A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.
The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.
Riot
(figurative) A wide and unconstrained variety.
In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.
Riot
A humorous or entertaining event or person.
Riot
Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.
Riot
(obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
Riot
(intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
Riot
To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.
Riot
(transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.
Riot
(transitive) To annoy.
Riot
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
His headstrong riot hath no curb.
Riot
Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
Venus loveth riot and dispense.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day.
Riot
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Riot
To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
Now he exact of all, wastes in delight,Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.
Riot
To spend or pass in riot.
[He] had rioted his life out.
Riot
A public act of violence by an unruly mob
Riot
A state of disorder involving group violence
Riot
A joke that seems extremely funny
Riot
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Riot
Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot;
Students were rioting everywhere in 1968
Riot
Engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making;
They were out carousing last night
