mutineer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mutineer
1600–10; < Middle French mutinier, equivalent to mutin mutiny, mutinous ( meut ( e ) mutiny < Vulgar Latin *movita, feminine of *movitus, variant of Latin mōtus, past participle of movēre to move + -in -ine 1 ) + -ier -ier 2; -eer
Example Sentences
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Seeing Samary revealed as the coup spokesman, Tévoédjrè was dismayed to realize he had sent a mutineer to stop a mutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The lead mutineer was a deckhand named Liu Guiduo.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023
And, of course, Yevgeny Prigozhin himself, Wagner’s leader and mutineer who many believed was a marked man after his short-lived uprising in June against the Russian military.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023
She’s a known mutineer whom the crew loathes and already has disobeyed a superior officer on Discovery by breaking into the lab.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2017
In ten minutes’ time every mutineer in the ship was in irons.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon
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