freedom fighter

Questions about freedom fighter

What does freedom fighter mean?

freedom fighter means "a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)".

What is another word for freedom fighter?

Close synonyms include insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is freedom fighter a common word?

freedom fighter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.