RENEGADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renegade mean? 

• RENEGADE (noun)
  The noun RENEGADE has 2 senses:

1. someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

2. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

  Familiarity information: RENEGADE used as a noun is rare.

• RENEGADE (adjective)
  The adjective RENEGADE has 1 sense:

1. having deserted a cause or principle

  Familiarity information: RENEGADE used as an adjective is very rare.

• RENEGADE (verb)
  The verb RENEGADE has 1 sense:

1. break with established customs

  Familiarity information: RENEGADE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENEGADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

defector; deserter (a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post))

Derivation:

renegade (break with established customs)

renegade (having deserted a cause or principle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apostate; deserter; ratter; recreant; renegade; turncoat

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

quitter (a person who gives up too easily)

Derivation:

renegade (having deserted a cause or principle)

• RENEGADE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having deserted a cause or principle

Synonyms:

recreant; renegade

Context example:

renegade supporters of the usurper

Similar:

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

Derivation:

renegade (a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.)

renegade (someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw)

• RENEGADE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Break with established customs

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

rebel; renegade

Hypernyms (to "renegade" is one way to...):

dissent; protest; resist (express opposition through action or words)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

renegade (someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw)

 Context examples 

Looking up, he saw beside him his former cloister companion the renegade monk, Hordle John.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The other, however, though near a foot shorter, was a man of great strength; and there was a gloss upon his white skin which was wanting in the heavier limbs of the renegade monk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)