Nearby Words
Related Questions
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To guerilla
:10
:09
:08
:07
:06
:05
:04
:03
:02
:01
Guerilla
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- These governments face insurgencies that almost exclusively use guerilla tactics.
- They make the smallest contribution to the public treasury, yet their guerilla war is costly.
- He contemplates the career of a great guerilla chief with ardent longing.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| guerrilla or guerilla (ɡəˈrɪlə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a member of an irregular usually politically motivated armed force that combats stronger regular forces, such as the army or police |
| b. (as modifier): guerrilla warfare | |
| 2. | Compare phalanx a form of vegetative spread in which the advance is from several individual rhizomes or stolons growing rapidly away from the centre, as in some clovers |
| [C19: from Spanish, diminutive of guerra | |
| guerilla or guerilla | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from Spanish, diminutive of guerra | |
| guer'rillaism or guerilla | |
| —n | |
| gue'rillaism or guerilla | |
| —n | |
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.