Confederate adj

1 of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the Civil War; "Confederate soldiers"

2 united in a confederacy or league [syn: allied, confederative]

1 a supporter of the Confederate States of America

2 someone who assists in a plot [syn: collaborator, henchman, partner in crime]

3 a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: accomplice]

1 form a group or unite; "The groups banded together" [syn: band together]

2 form a confederation with; of nations

see Confederate

English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. a member of a confederacy
2. an accomplice in a plot
3. An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.

Adjective

confederate

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy

Verb

1. To combine into a confederacy.

Italian

Adjective

confederate

1. Feminine plural form of confederato

Noun

confederate

1. Plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

1. Form of Second-person plural imperative, confederare#Italian|confederare

Confederacy (or Confederation) may refer to:

Confederation, an association of sovereign states or communities. Examples include:

• Confederate States of America, eleven southern states of the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. "Confederate" may also be used in reference to the CSA's military, such as:
  • Confederate States Army
  • Confederate States Navy
  • Confederate States Marine Corps

• Confederate Ireland
• Canadian Confederation
• Iroquois Confederacy, a group of united Native American nations in both Canada and the United States of America
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836–1839
• Powhatan Confederacy
• Swiss Confederation
• Three Confederate States of Gojoseon of the Korean Bronze age

Fictional Confederacies

• The Confederacy of Independent Systems, a secessionist political entity in the Star Wars universe
• Galactic Confederacy, part of the Scientology mythos
• Terran Confederacy, a political entity in the StarCraft universe
• Terran Confederation, a political entity in the Wing Commander universe

See also

• Federacy, in which some substate units enjoy more independence than the majority of the substate units
• A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980
• Federation, a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government
• Confederate Motor Company, an American manufacturer of motorcycles

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