insurgent
UK/ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/US/ɪnˈsəɹd͡ʒənt/
insurgent adjective: rebellious, opposing authority.
Adjective
insurgent (not comparable)
- Rebellious, opposing authority.
- The insurgent provinces.1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic
- Afghan National Police, backed by U.S.-led coalition forces, detained an insurgent leader during a raid in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. military statement said.2008 November 15, “U.S.: Afghan insurgent leader captured”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2009
- Of water: surging or rushing in.
- Vesuvio groans through all his echoing caves, / And Etna thunders o'er the insurgent waves.1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 33
Noun
insurgent (plural insurgents)
- One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
insurgent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
insurgent in Hindi
- rebel
- बाग़ी bāġī, विद्रोही vidrohī
insurgent in Tamil
- கிளர்ச்சிக்காரர், திடீரெனத் தாக்குபவர், விடுதலைக்குப் போராடுபவர்
insurgent in Urdu
- rebel
- باغی bāġī
insurgent in Bengali
- rebel
- বিদ্রোহী bidrōhi
More languagesFewer languages
- insurgent in Malayalam
- കലാപകാരിയായ, സായുധകലാപത്തിനൊരുമ്പെടുന്ന, വിപ്ലവം നടത്തുന്ന, വിപ്ലവകാരിയായ
- insurgent in Kannada
- ದಂಗೆಕೋರ, ಬಂಡಾಯಗಾರ, ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆಕಾರ, ಎದುರುನಿಲ್ಲುವ
- insurgent in Arabic
- مُتَمَرِّد mutamarrid, ثَائِر ṯāʔir, عَاصٍ ʕāṣin, عُصَاة ʕuṣāh
- insurgent in Indonesian
- pendurhaka
- insurgent in Thai
- กบฏ gà-bòt
- insurgent in Vietnamese
- người khởi nghĩa
Examples of insurgent in a sentence
- The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
- The insurgents’ shadow government is being crippled by the federal military strikes.
- The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.
Forms of insurgent
| plural | insurgents |
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Origin of insurgent
From Latin īnsurgentem, accusative singular of īnsurgēns, present active participle of īnsurgō (“to rise up against, revolt”), from in (“against”) + surgō (“to rise”), itself from sub (“up from below”) + regō (“to guide, direct, rule, govern, administer”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to move in a straight line, to rule, guide, lead straight, put right”).
Words formed from insurgent
Words that rhyme with insurgent
- emergent
- divergent
- assurgent
- resurgent
- convergent
- turgent
- urgent
- abstergent
- detergent
- neurodivergent
- submergent
- surgent
1 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about insurgent
- What does insurgent mean?
- Insurgent means rebellious, opposing authority.
- What is insurgent in Hindi?
- Insurgent in Hindi is बाग़ी (bāġī), विद्रोही (vidrohī). See Insurgent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is insurgent?
- Insurgent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce insurgent?
- Insurgent is pronounced /ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/ (UK).
Words near insurgent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: insurgent (page history and authors); insurgent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insurgent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); insurgent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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