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Definitions for Rebel

[1] a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
[2] a person who resists any authority, control, or tradition.
[3] rebellious; defiant.
[4] of or relating to rebels.
[5] to reject, resist, or rise in arms against one's government or ruler.
[6] to resist or rise against some authority, control, or tradition.
[7] to show or feel utter repugnance: His very soul rebelled at spanking the child.
[8] to resist or rise up against a government or other authority, esp by force of arms
[9] to dissent from an accepted moral code or convention of behaviour, dress, etc
[10] to show repugnance (towards)
[11] a person who rebels (as modifier ) a rebel soldier ; a rebel leader
[12] a person who dissents from some accepted moral code or convention of behaviour, dress, etc

Words related to Rebel

revolutionary, insurgent, rebellious, guerrilla, separatist, opponent, secessionist, rioter, renounce, defy, revolt, secede, resist, overthrow, resistance, nonconformist, iconoclast, traitor, revolutionist, mutineer

Words nearby Rebel

rebbe, rebbetzin, rebec, rebecca, rebekah, rebel, rebel yell, rebeldom, rebellion, rebellious, rebellow

Origin of Rebel

1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English < Old French rebelle < Latin rebellis renewing a war, equivalent to re- re- + bell(um ) war + -is adj. suffix; (v.) Middle English rebellen (< Old French rebeller ) < Latin rebellāre; (noun) Middle English rebel, derivative of the adj.

Other words from Rebel

reb·el·like , adjective
non·reb·el , noun, adjective
pro·reb·el , adjective
sem·i·reb·el , noun

Word origin for Rebel

C13: from Old French rebelle , from Latin rebellis insurgent, from re- + bellum war

Synonyms for Rebel

insurgent, rebellious, revolutionary, insubordinate, insurrectionary, mutinous