Usually means: Person opposing authority or norms.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rebel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rebel: Merriam-Webster
  3. rebel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rebel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rebel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Rebel, rebel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rebel, rebel: Wordnik
  8. rebel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rebel, rebel: Wiktionary
  10. rebel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rebel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rebel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rebel, rebel: Dictionary.com
  14. rebel (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rebel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Rebel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rebel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Rebel: Rhymezone
  20. Rebel, rebel (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rebel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rebel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rebel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rebel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. rebel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. rebel: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rebel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. REBEL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. rebel: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rebel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See rebeling as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
▸ noun:  (US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
▸ noun:  (US) A Confederate soldier; of the American Civil War.
▸ noun:  A surname from German.

Similar:
insurrectionist, insurgent, renegade, mutineer, Johnny Reb, maverick, rebellious, arise, Johnny, rise up, more...

Opposite:
conformist, follower, obedient, compliant, submissive

Types:
revolutionary, insurgent, anarchist, separatist, guerrilla, mutineer, radical, nonconformist, more...

Phrases:
rebel groups, Rebel yell, rebel movement, rebel camp, rebel flag, more...

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young, irish, little, old, great, american, agrarian, romantic, dangerous, former, true

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Similar:
insurrectionist, insurgent, renegade, mutineer, Johnny Reb, maverick, rebellious, arise, Johnny, rise up, more...

Opposite:
conformist, follower, obedient, compliant, submissive

Types:
revolutionary, insurgent, anarchist, separatist, guerrilla, mutineer, radical, nonconformist, more...

Phrases:
rebel groups, Rebel yell, rebel movement, rebel camp, rebel flag, johnny rebel, lautaro popular rebel forces, rebel without a cause, Rebel Wilson, Rebel Moon, Rebel Cheer Squad, Rebel Alliance, more...

Adjectives:
young, irish, little, old, great, american, agrarian, romantic, dangerous, former, true

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark purple,     charcoal,     crimson, more...



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