rebel

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: reb=el
• COUNT in NET: 19 in 18 verses (in OT : 19 in 18 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

rebel, 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."  [1913 Webster]
"Convict by flight, and rebel to all law."  [1913 Webster]

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.

Etymology

ME f. OF rebelle, rebeller f. L rebellis (as RE-, bellum war)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

rebel

n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

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, whiner

ROGET 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.