renegade (noun)

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• renegade — ► NOUN ▪ a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having treacherously changed allegiance. ORIGIN Spanish renegado, from Latin renegare renounce …   English terms dictionary

• renegade — noun especially literary someone who joins an opposing side in a war, in politics etc: a renegade, who had once been a leader of the Party | renegade soldiers/troops etc: At the meeting were several renegade Communists …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• renegade — noun /ˈɹɛnɪˌɡeɪd/ a) An outlaw or rebel. b) A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause, religion, political party, friend, etc …   Wiktionary

• renegade state — noun a state that does not respect other states in its international actions • Syn: ↑rogue state, ↑rogue nation • Hypernyms: ↑state, ↑nation, ↑country, ↑land, ↑commonwealth, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• renegade — 1. noun 1) he was denounced as a renegade Syn: traitor, defector, deserter, turncoat, rebel, mutineer 2) archaic a religious renegade Syn: apostate, heretic, dissenter 2. adjective 1) …   Thesaurus of popular words

• renegade — UK [ˈrenɪɡeɪd] / US [ˈrenˌɪɡeɪd] noun [countable] Word forms renegade : singular renegade plural renegades someone who leaves one group and joins another that has different aims or beliefs Derived word: renegade UK / US adjective …   English dictionary

• renegade — /ˈrɛnəgeɪd / (say renuhgayd) noun 1. someone who deserts a party or cause for another. 2. an apostate from a religious faith. 3. someone who does not quite conform to expected social patterns: she s a bit of a renegade. –adjective 4. of or like a …  

• renegade — I. noun Etymology: Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegatus, from past participle of renegare to deny, from Latin re + negare to deny more at negate Date: 1583 1. a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another 2. an individual… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• renegade — [16] A renegade is etymologically a ‘denier’. The word is an anglicization of Spanish renegado, a term picked up via Anglo Hispanic contact at the end of the 16th century and itself quite commonly used in English until the 18th century. Renegado… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• renegade — [ rɛnɪgeɪd] noun a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles. ↘archaic a person who abandons religion. adjective having treacherously changed allegiance. verb archaic become a renegade. Origin C15: from Sp.… …   English new terms dictionary

• renegade — [16] A renegade is etymologically a ‘denier’. The word is an anglicization of Spanish renegado, a term picked up via Anglo Hispanic contact at the end of the 16th century and itself quite commonly used in English until the 18th century. Renegado… …   Word origins