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Definition of Guerilla

1. Noun. A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment.

Definition of Guerilla

1. a. See Guerrilla.

Definition of Guerilla

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of guerrilla) ¹

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Definition of Guerilla

1. a member of a small independent band of soldiers [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guerilla

Literary usage of Guerilla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"The characteristics of war also determine War< whether so-called guerilla war is real war in the technical sense of the term. guerilla war must not be ..."

2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"Thus, Zaragoza being surrounded by rugged mountains, every range became the mother of a guerilla brood; nor were the regular partisan corps less numerous ..."

3. History of the War in the Peninsula: And in the South of France, from the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1851)
"Zaragoza is surrounded by rugged mountains and every range became the mother of a guerilla brood. On the left of the Ebro, the Catalonian colonels, Baget, ..."

4. With the Victorious Bulgarians by Hermenegild Wagner (1913)
"CHAPTER XVIII THE guerilla WAR THE conduct of the war by the Bulgarians was aided to an extraordinary degree by their kinsmen living in Turkey. ..."

5. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1910)
"§196 We will take first the question of whether it is lawful to use guerilla troops, and, if so, under what conditions of leadership, organization, ..."

6. Turkey, Russia, the Black sea, and Circassia by Edmund Spencer (1855)
"HAVING now informed our readers of the tactics of the Caucasian guerilla when in action, we shall proceed to explain in what manner such large bodies of men ..."

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