mutineer

American  

[myoot-n-eer] / ˌmyut nˈɪər /

noun

1. a person who mutinies.

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mutineer British  

/ ˌmjuːtɪˈnɪə /

noun

1. a person who mutinies

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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

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

He has spent months at sea on ships in the Pacific and Arctic, and once stayed on Pitcairn Island with a direct descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023

Q. What became of Samuel B. Comstock, who was the head mutineer after he landed upon the Island?

From A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants by Lay, William

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