Teenagers who push against the boundaries set by their parents are often described as rebellious (the adjective form of rebel).
Because rebels are usually (by definition) taking on those who are more powerful, they are often seen as underdogs. Rebels reject the status quo and instead play by their own rules, regardless of society’s restrictions or expectations. More generally, a rebel is anyone who challenges the established rules or the way things are. In the Star Wars series, the revolutionaries trying to bring down the Empire are known as the Rebel Alliance. In the American Civil War, the members of the Confederacy who attempted to secede from the Union are called Rebels. When multiple people participate in this kind of act, it is called a rebellion. In its most traditional sense, rebel literally means to wage war against a government or other form of rule in order to overthrow it. To rebel is to make war against something you disagree with or refuse to conform to.
It is derived from the Latin bell(um), which means “war” and is also the root of war-related words like antebellum, belligerent, and bellicose. The first records of rebel come from around the 1300s.
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