mutineer

noun

mu·​ti·​neer ˌmyü-tə-ˈnir 

: one that mutinies

Synonyms of mutineer

• rebel
• insurgent

Examples of mutineer in a Sentence

the mutineers were captured after they turned to piracy on the open seas

Recent Examples on the Web

Pitcairn Island Pitcairn is British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific that was famously born from the last refuge of the Bounty mutineers, who arrived in 1789 with a small company of Tahitians. — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026

Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt. — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

Or an historian of Polynesian culture giving a lecture about tattooing, or the time Captain Bligh stopped on the atoll to look for the mutineer Fletcher Christian. — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026

Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1603, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mutineer

• auctioneer
• bandelier
• belvedere
• bombardier
• brigadier
• buccaneer
• cavalier
• chandelier
• chanticleer
• chevalier
• commandeer
• disappear

Kids Definition

mutineer

noun

mu·​ti·​neer ˌmyüt-ᵊn-ˈi(ə)r 

: a person who is guilty of mutiny