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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“rebels” is a form of

rebel

/ˈɹɛb.əl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rebels rebelling rebelled

  1. noun A person who resists an established authority, often violently. “A group of rebels defied the general's orders and split off from the main army.”
  2. noun (US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.
  3. verb (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority. “to rebel against the system”
  4. verb (intransitive, politics) To forcefully subvert the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
  5. noun (US) A Confederate soldier; of the American Civil War.
  6. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

malcontent renegade Confederate defy Johnny Reb Reb Johnny greyback insurgent insurrectionist freedom fighter maverick arise rise rise up

Antonyms

obey submit

Etymology

From Middle English rebel, rebell, from Old French rebelle, from Latin rebellis (“waging war again; insurgent”), from rebellō (“to wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“to wage war”).

From Middle English rebellen, from Old French rebeller, from Latin rebellō (“to wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“to wage war”). Doublet of revel.

From rebel.

Borrowed from German Rebel.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
  2. noun One who rebels.
  3. verb To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
  4. verb To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

Etymology [F. rebelle, fr. L. rebellis. See Rebel, v. t.]

Etymology [F. rebelle.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rebel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “rebel” (best matches first).