rebel

IPA: rˈɛbʌɫ

A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
(US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.
(US) A Confederate soldier; of the American Civil War.
A surname from German.

Examples of "rebel" in Sentences

The term rebel may not now appear in all its train of horrid consequences.
Unlike many, I don't find the term "rebel" pejorative; George Washington was a rebel.
Hanging the word "rebel" onto someone for me is like a neon flower to a buzzing bumble bee For the most part...though we won't go into those particulars now.
In Washington, Hoyos said that roughly 1,500 rebels are hiding out in Venezuela and he showed fellow diplomats numerous aerial photographs of what he identified as rebel camps on Venezuelan territory.
Your Lordships will find that he never is a rebel to one party without being a tyrant to some others; that _rebel_ and _tyrant_ are correlative terms, when applied to him, and that they constantly go together.
The Leinster king, however, could neither be frightened nor persuaded into seeing matters in that light, and, probably, thought the term rebel would be more appropriately applied to those who resisted the native rulers of the country.