resistance fighter
Clandestine armed rebel
A resistance fighter is someone who engages in armed or covert opposition against an occupying force or oppressive regime.
The term typically applies to members of underground movements during wartime—particularly those who fought Nazi occupation in World War II: French resistance fighters sabotaged German supply lines.
The label carries heroic connotations, though one side's resistance fighter may be another's terrorist.
- partisanBiased toward one side
- Viet MinhVietnamese independence coalition
- maquisMediterranean coastal scrub
- ZapatistasMexican revolutionary indigenous movement
- rebelAuthority defier
radio · Nationalists · enemy lines · clandestine · Sandinistas · revolutionary · armed struggle · guerrilla warfare · hunted · hideout · occupation · brave · underground · cell structure · safe house · freedom · bunker · false papers
- combatantssoldier, warrior, swordsman, spearman, infantryman
- warrior womenBoudicca, Hippolyta, Hua Mulan, Joan of Arc, Mulan
- wartime jobssoldier, medic, general, sergeant, nurse
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, Sakharov
- insurgentsinsurgent, guerrillas, guerrilla, rebel, partisan
- Patriotspatriot, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, founding father
resistance fightercollaborator
One who works jointly
quisling · occupier · oppressor · occupation forces · traitor
resistance fighterfascist
Authoritarian ultranationalist ideology adherent
Nazi · loyalist · authoritarian · oppressor · tyrant
fighting, fighter, resistance, resistant, fought, resisting, undefeated, resisted, fighters