intransitive verb. To refuse allegiance to and oppose by force an established government or ruling authority.

intransitive verb. To resist or defy an authority or a generally accepted convention.

intransitive verb. To feel or express strong unwillingness or repugnance.

noun. One who rebels or is in rebellion.

noun. A Confederate soldier.

noun. A person who resists or defies authority or convention.

Resisting authority or law; rebellious.

Of a rebellious nature or character; characteristic of a rebel.

noun. A person who makes war upon the government of his country from political motives; one of a body of persons organized for a change of government or of laws by force of arms, or by open defiance.

noun. Hence One who or that which resists authority or law; one who refuses obedience to a superior, or who revolts against some controlling power or principle.

noun. Synonyms Traitor, etc. See insurgent, n.

To make war against one's government, or against anything deemed oppressive, by arms or other means; revolt by active resistance or repulsion.

noun. One who rebels.

adjective. Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious.

intransitive verb. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See rebellion.

intransitive verb. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

verb. To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

noun. A person who resists an established authority, often violently.

noun. a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

verb. break with established customs

noun. someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

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

verb. take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

"Your Lordships will find that he never is a rebel to one party without being a tyrant to some others; that _rebel_ and _tyrant_ are correlative terms, when applied to him, and that they constantly go together."

rebellion  rebellious  

confederate soldier  dissent  nonconformist  protest  recusant  

Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  

British  army  bandit  barbarian  chief  

Bolshevik  Bolshevist  Bolshie  Carbonarist  Carbonaro  

rebelled  rebelling  

rebelled  rebelling  rebels