[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rebel \reb"el\ re^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
see also:
rebel 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
rebel insurgent 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rebel \rebel"\ r-ebe^l", v. i. imp.  p. p. rebelled
   r-ebe^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
see also:
rebelled rebelling bellicose revel rebellion 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rebel
     adj 1: used by northerners of confederate soldiers; "the rebel
            yell"
     2: participating in organized resistance to a constituted
        government; "the rebelling confederacy" syn: rebela,
        rebellinga, rebellious
     n 1: `johnny' was applied as a nickname for confederate soldiers
          by the federal soldiers in the american civil war;
          `grayback' derived from their gray confederate uniforms
          syn: reb, johnny reb, johnny, grayback
     2: 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
     3: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and
        action syn: maverick
     v 1: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance syn:
           arise, rise, rise up
     2: break with established customs syn: renegade
     also: rebelling, rebelled
see also:
rebela rebellinga rebellious reb johnny reb johnny 
grayback insurgent insurrectionist freedom fighter maverick 
arise rise rise up renegade rebelling 
rebelled 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

138 moby thesaurus words for "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

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

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

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