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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024guer•ril•la or gue•ril•la /gəˈrɪlə/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -las. - Militarya member of a band of unofficial soldiers that attacks an enemy in small groups, often without warning.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024guer•ril•la (gə ril′ə),USA pronunciation n. - Militarya member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
adj. - Militarypertaining to such fighters or their technique of warfare:guerrilla strongholds; guerrilla tactics.
Also, guerilla. - Gmc; compare war1); origin, originally in reference to the Spanish resistance against Napoleon; the name for the struggle erroneously taken as a personal noun, nominal
- Spanish, diminutive of guerra war (
- 1800–10
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