MUTINEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutineer mean? 

• MUTINEER (noun)
  The noun MUTINEER has 1 sense:

1. someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers)

  Familiarity information: MUTINEER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTINEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mutineer" is a kind of...):

freedom fighter; insurgent; insurrectionist; rebel (a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions))

Derivation:

mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))

mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)

 Context examples 

When I had first sallied from the door, the other mutineers had been already swarming up the palisade to make an end of us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You're either my ship's cook—and then you were treated handsome—or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was nothing left for me but death by starvation or death by the hands of the mutineers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was no return of the mutineers—not so much as another shot out of the woods.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Heaven forgive them,” said the doctor; “'tis the mutineers!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor, he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water and the proceeds of their hunting.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And then he turned again to the mutineers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

*The mutineers were soon only eight in number, for the man shot by Mr. Trelawney on board the schooner died that same evening of his wound.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Far more likely it's the mutineers,” I answered.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had there been a breath of wind, we should have fallen on the six mutineers who were left aboard with us, slipped our cable, and away to sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)