'Rebel' definitions:
Definition of 'Rebel'
From: WordNet
noun
`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 [syn: Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback]
noun
A person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) [syn: insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel]
noun
Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action [syn: maverick, rebel]
verb
verb
Break with established customs [syn: rebel, renegade]
Definition of 'Rebel'
From: GCIDE
- Rebel \Reb"el\ (r[e^]b"[e^]l), a. [F. rebelle, fr. L. rebellis. See Rebel, v. i.] Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. [1913 Webster]
- Whoso be rebel to my judgment. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rebel'
From: GCIDE
- Rebel \Reb"el\, n. [F. rebelle.] One who rebels. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Revolter; insurgent.
- Usage: Rebel, Insurgent. Insurgent marks an early, and rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to government. The former rises up against his rulers, the latter makes war upon them. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rebel'
From: GCIDE
- Rebel \Re*bel"\ (r[-e]*b[e^]l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rebelled (r[-e]*b[e^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebelling.] [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.]
- 1. 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. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. --Josh. xxii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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? --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rebel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adversary,
- agitator,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- anarcho-syndicalist,
- antagonist,
- antinomian,
- apostate,
- arise,
- assailant,
- attacker,
- bellyacher,
- Bolshevik,
- Bolshevist,
- Bolshie,
- bonnet rouge,
- brawler,
- breakaway,
- Carbonarist,
- Carbonaro,
- Castroist,
- Castroite,
- challenge,
- Charley,
- Communist,
- complainant,
- complainer,
- Cong,
- crab,
- crank,
- criminal syndicalist,
- croaker,
- dare,
- debunker,
- defy,
- disobey,
- dissent,
- dissenter,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- extremistic,
- factious,
- faultfinder,
- Fenian,
- flout,
- frondeur,
- griper,
- grouch,
- grouser,
- growler,
- grumbler,
- Guevarist,
- heretic,
- iconoclast,
- insubordinate,
- insurge,
- insurgent,
- insurrect,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- Jacobin,
- kicker,
- kvetch,
- Leninist,
- malcontent,
- Maoist,
- Marxist,
- Mau-Mau,
- maverick,
- mount the barricades,
- murmurer,
- mutineer,
- mutineering,
- mutinous,
- mutiny,
- mutterer,
- nihilist,
- nonconformist,
- opponent,
- overthrow,
- Puritan,
- querulous person,
- radical,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- rebellious,
- recusant,
- Red,
- red,
- Red Republican,
- 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,
- Roundhead,
- run riot,
- sans-culotte,
- sans-culottist,
- schismatic,
- seditionary,
- seditious,
- Sinn Feiner,
- sorehead,
- strike,
- subversive,
- subvert,
- syndicalist,
- terrorist,
- traitor,
- traitorous,
- treasonable,
- Trotskyist,
- Trotskyite,
- turbulent,
- ultraist,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- whiner,
- Yankee,
- Yankee Doodle