insurgent
/ɪnˈsəɹd͡ʒənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Of water: surging or rushing in.
noun
One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
Example Sentences
- "The insurgent provinces."
- "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."
- "Immediately following the shooting, there were multiple, coordinated information releases blaming the shooting on “Antifa,” the newest alt-right boogeyman, in what appears to be a social media blitz intended to center the conversation on the left wing. This is part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by the insurgent right wing extremists to paint radical pro-labor activists as ultraviolent “terrorists.”"
- "Vesuvio groans through all his echoing caves, / And Etna thunders o'er the insurgent waves."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-, īnsurgentem
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈsəɹd͡ʒənt/
- British English: /ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/