1. (n.)confederacy an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose.
2. confederacy a group of persons, parties, states, etc., united by such a confederacy.
3. confederacy a combination of persons for unlawful purposes; conspiracy.
4. confederacy the Confederacy,
Etymology: (1350–1400; < AF)
Definition of 'Confederacy'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
2. (noun)confederation, confederacy, federation a union of political organizations
3. (noun)conspiracy, confederacy a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
4. (noun)conspiracy, confederacy a secretagreement between two or morepeople to perform an unlawful act
Definitions of Confederacy 
Afrikaans: statebond, verbond, konfe
Arabic: تَحالُف، اتِّحادُ دُوَل
Bulgarian: съюз
Brazilian: confederação
Czech: konfederace
German: das Bündnis
Danish: forbund
Greek: ομοσπονδία
Spanish: confederación
Estonian: liit
Farsi: هم پیمان؛ اتحادیه
Finnish: liitto
French: confédération
Hebrew: בְּרִית
Hindi: राज्यसंघ
Croatian: savez
Hungarian: (állam)szövetség
Indonesian: konfederasi
Icelandic: bandalag
Italian: confederazione
Japanese: 連合
Korean: 연합
Lithuanian: konfederacija
Latvian: konfederācija; savienība
Malay: konfederasi
Dutch: bond
Norwegian: forbund, samband, (kon)fø
Polish: konfederacja, sprzymierze
Persian: هم پیمان؛ اتحادیه
Pashto: تړون، يووالى يا تحاد، اتح
Portuguese: confederação
Romanian: confederaţie
Russian: конфедерация
Slovak: konfederácia
Slovenian: konfederacija
Serbian: konfederacija
Swedish: allians, förbund
Thai: การรวมตัวเพื่อจุดประสงค์บ
Turkish: birlik, konfederasyon
Taiwanese: 同盟
Ukrainian: конфедерація; союз держав
Urdu: اتحاد، گٹھ جوڑ، محاذ
Vietnamese: liên minh
Chinese: 同盟
