Synonyms of guerrillas

guerrillas

noun

variants or guerillas

plural of guerrilla

as in soldiers

a member of a usually small group of soldiers who do not belong to a regular army and who fight in a war as an independent unit

The guerrillas controlled half the country.

Related Words

• soldiers
• partisans
• marines
• Confederates
• paramilitaries
• warriors
• raiders
• irregulars
• fighters
• Federals
• troopers
• servicemen
• veterans
• cavalrymen
• infantrymen
• legionaries
• dragoons
• rangers
• legionnaires
• riflemen
• commandos
• militiamen
• regulars
• foot soldiers
• dogfaces
• cavaliers
• servicewomen
• cuirassiers
• men-at-arms
• artillerymen
• doughboys
• combatants
• counterguerrillas
• cannoneers
• musketeers
• grunts
• Continentals
• archers
• carabineers
• gunners
• footmen
• belligerents
• crossbowmen
• lancers
• guardsmen
• GIs
• pikemen
• minutemen
• conscripts
• recruits
• spearmen
• jarheads
• mortarmen
• reservists
• gendarmes
• draftees
• warhorses
• enrollees
• knights
• champions
• lifers
• diggers
• gallowglasses

Dissimilar Words

• civilians
• noncombatants

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of guerrillas

And, earlier this month, de la Espriella broke from precedent by giving his first post-inauguration speech at a military base in Cali that had recently been attacked, allegedly by guerrillas, instead of in Bogotá. — Daniel Castro, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026

About 70% of them are former FARC guerrillas, 29% are former members of the security forces and the rest are civilians. — ABC News, 9 July 2026

Cepeda had participated in and continued throughout the campaign to promote negotiations with guerrillas and cartels. — CBS News, 29 June 2026

Fighting between rebel groups The election comes 10 years after Colombia signed a historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, that had offered hope to break the nation’s vicious cycle of fighting between rebel groups and the government. — Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026

Even after the Khmer Rouge was removed from power by a Vietnamese invasion in 1979, archeological sites lay abandoned, littered with landmines or used for cover by militant guerillas. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026

The guerrillas took the high court hostage and intended to subject the then-president to a trial. — Michelle D. Paranzino, The Conversation, 11 June 2026

Sunday’s vote, seen as a referendum on Petro’s policies, comes 10 years after Colombia signed a historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. — Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC news, 1 June 2026