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Rebel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Rebel has 3 senses
- rebel(n = noun.person) greyback, johnny, johnny reb, reb - `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms; Array is a kind of confederate soldier
- rebel(n = noun.person) freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist - a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions); Array has particulars: mutineer, young turk, nat turner, turner, denmark vesey, vesey, sir william wallace, wallace
- rebel(n = noun.person) maverick - someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action; Array is a kind of nonconformist, recusant
is a kind of crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer, revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter
Derived form verb rebel1
Derived form verb rebel2
Verb Rebel has 2 senses
- rebel(v = verb.social) arise, rise, rise up - take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance; Array is one way to dissent, protest, resist
- rebel(v = verb.social) renegade - break with established customs; Array is one way to dissent, protest, resist
Derived forms noun rebel2, noun rebellion2
Sample sentence:
They Rebel
Derived forms noun rebel3, noun rebellion1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. [1913 Webster]
"Whoso be rebel to my judgment."
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"Convict by flight, and rebel to all law."
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Rebel, n. [F. rebelle.].
One who rebels. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Revolter; insurgent.
Rebel, v. i. [F. rebeller, fr. L. rebellare to make war again; pref. re- again + bellare to make war, fr. bellum war. See Bellicose, and cf. Revel to carouse.].
- To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion. [1913 Webster]"The murmur and the churls' rebelling." [1913 Webster]"Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord." [1913 Webster]
- To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt. [1913 Webster]"How could my hand rebel against my heart?
How could your heart rebel against your reason?" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Rebel, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a person who fights against, resists, or refuses allegiance to, the established government.
2 a person or thing that resists authority or control.
--adj. (attrib.)
1 rebellious.
2 of or concerning rebels.
3 in rebellion.
--v.intr. (rebelled, rebelling; US rebeled, rebeling) (usu. foll. by against)
1 act as a rebel; revolt.
2 feel or display repugnance.
--n.
1 a person who fights against, resists, or refuses allegiance to, the established government.
2 a person or thing that resists authority or control.
--adj. (attrib.)
1 rebellious.
2 of or concerning rebels.
3 in rebellion.
--v.intr. (rebelled, rebelling; US rebeled, rebeling) (usu. foll. by against)
1 act as a rebel; revolt.
2 feel or display repugnance.
Etymology
ME f. OF rebelle, rebeller f. L rebellis (as RE-, bellum war)
THESAURUS
Rebel
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, adversary, agitator, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, antagonist, antinomian, apostate, arise, assailant, attacker, bellyacher, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, challenge, complainant, complainer, crab, crank, criminal syndicalist, croaker, dare, debunker, defy, disobey, dissent, dissenter, extreme, extremist, extremistic, factious, faultfinder, flout, frondeur, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, heretic, iconoclast, insubordinate, insurge, insurgent, insurrect, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, kicker, kvetch, malcontent, maverick, mount the barricades, murmurer, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, mutiny, mutterer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrow, querulous person, radical, reactionary, reactionist, rebellious, recusant, red, reluct, reluctate, resistance fighter, resister, revolt, revolter, revolute, revolution, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionize, revolutionizer, riot, rioter, riotous, rise, rise against, rise up, run riot, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, schismatic, seditionary, seditious, sorehead, strike, subversive, subvert, syndicalist, terrorist, traitor, traitorous, treasonable, turbulent, ultraist, whinerROGET THESAURUS
Rebel
Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.VB disobey, violate, infringe, shirk, set at defiance, set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of, take the law into one's own hands, kick over the traces, turn restive, run restive, champ the bit, strike, rise, rise in arms, secede, mutiny, rebel.
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