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rebel
/ˈɹɛbəl/
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What does rebel mean?
noun
- A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
verb
- To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
- To forcefully subvert the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A Confederate soldier; of the American Civil War.
- (historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.
proper noun
- A surname from German.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɛbəl/
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After crossing the lines, she passed as a rebel lady, to enable her the more successfully to carry out her object.
We often read nowadays of the valor or audacity with which some rebel attacks a hoary tyranny or an antiquated superstition.
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They were arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned and fined for disturbing the "peace" of a common nuisance, and "malicious" destruction of rebel paraphernalia.
We rebel against our own affections, against the love that chains us perhaps to weakness and forces us, weary, to the wheel.
That has a very chivalrous sound, but I know there will be no reformation until women rebel and demand everywhere the open fire.