Guerrilla Definition

gərilə
guerrillas
noun
guerrillas
Warfare carried on by guerrillas.
Webster's New World
Any member of a small defensive force of irregular soldiers, usually volunteers, making surprise raids, esp. behind the lines of an invading enemy army.
Webster's New World
(now rare) A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war.
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Synonyms:
adjective
Of or by guerrillas.
Webster's New World
Characteristic of guerrillas; undercover, clandestine, etc. or radical, subversive, etc.
Webster's New World
Using unconventional and usually inexpensive means to generate interest or raise concern among the public, as in commercial marketing or social activism.
American Heritage
(military) Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators.
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Other Word Forms of Guerrilla

Noun

Singular:
guerrilla
Plural:
guerrillas

Origin of Guerrilla

  • Spanish raiding party, guerrilla force diminutive of guerra war of Germanic origin wers- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsular war.

    From Wiktionary

Guerrilla Sentence Examples

  • In the Boer War of1899-1902Winburg was one of the Boer centres in the guerrilla fighting which followed the fall of Pretoria.

  • Guerrilla war (always successful, as history shows) directly infringes that rule.

  • From Campania the rebels marched into Lucania, a country better suited for guerrilla warfare.

  • The western border was rendered desolate and deserted by guerrilla forays throughout the war.

  • As it progressed the Germans adopted many of the methods employed by the British in their colonial wars, and they learned to appreciate more accurately the immensity of the task which Lord Kitchener accomplished in overcoming the guerrilla warfare in the Boer republics.

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