andarte means A Greek guerrilla fighter, especially as part of the Resistance during the Second World War. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ANDARTE — [Noun] A Greek guerrilla fighter, particularly one of the irregular resistance forces operating in the mountains against Axis occupation during the Second World War. From the Modern Greek αντάρτης (antártis), meaning 'rebel' or 'guerrilla fighter'. Unlike a "partisan" — a broader, geographically-neutral term for an irregular resister — or a "hoplite" — which conjures the bronze-clad order of the phalanx — the andarte is a figure defined by his specific, stony terrain and his asymmetrical war. He is the glint of a rifle barrel in an olive grove at dusk, the crack of a lone shot echoing down a limestone gorge, and the deliberate footprint left in high summer dust on a mountain path; a spectral soldier whose true weapon was the unforgiving land itself. To be an andarte was to become the land's own answer to a foreign boot, a stubborn persistence woven from the mountains.
noun
- A Greek guerrilla fighter, especially as part of the Resistance during the Second World War.“Myers now learned of the proximity of another andarte leader, known as Aris Veloukhiotis, but Aris did not even answer the messages Myers sent him […].”