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guerrilla

noun

variants: or guerilla

Synonyms and Antonyms of guerrilla

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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of guerrilla

counterguerrilla (also counterguerilla), irregular, paramilitary, partisan (also partizan)

dogface, fighter, legionary, legionnaire, man-at-arms, regular, serviceman, soldier, trooper, warrior

carabineer (or carabinier), cavalier, cavalryman, cuirassier, dragoon

doughboy, footman, foot soldier, grunt, infantryman

commando, raider

jarhead [slang], marine, ranger

artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner, mortarman, musketeer, rifleman

archer, crossbowman

lancer, pikeman, spearman

Confederate, Continental, Federal, GI, guardsman, militiaman, minuteman

belligerent, combatant

lifer, veteran, warhorse

conscript, draftee, enrollee, recruit

champion, knight

digger [chiefly Australian & New Zealand], gallowglass, gendarme

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of guerrilla

civilian, noncombatant

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