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 Definitions of confederacy  [ənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə si]  

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Definition of 'confederacy' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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 secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act


Definition of 'confederacy' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) confederacy
a league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance

2. (noun) confederacy
the persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation

3. (noun) confederacy
a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy


Translation of 'confederacy' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a league or alliance (of states etc).

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: statebond, verbond, konfe Arabic flag Arabic: تَحالُف، اتِّحادُ دُوَل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: съюз
Brazilian flag Brazilian: confederação Czech flag Czech: konfederace German flag German: das Bündnis
Danish flag Danish: forbund Greek flag Greek: ομοσπονδία Spanish flag Spanish: confederación
Estonian flag Estonian: liit Farsi flag Farsi: هم پیمان؛ اتحادیه Finnish flag Finnish: liitto
French flag French: confédération Hebrew flag Hebrew: בְּרִית Hindi flag Hindi: राज्यसंघ
Croatian flag Croatian: savez Hungarian flag Hungarian: (állam)szövetség Indonesian flag Indonesian: konfederasi
Icelandic flag Icelandic: bandalag Italian flag Italian: confederazione Japanese flag Japanese: 連合
Korean flag Korean: 연합 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: konfederacija Latvian flag Latvian: konfederācija; savienība
Malay flag Malay: konfederasi Dutch flag Dutch: bond Norwegian flag Norwegian: forbund, samband, (kon)fø
Polish flag Polish: konfederacja, sprzymierze Persian flag Persian: هم پیمان؛ اتحادیه Pashto flag Pashto: تړون، يووالى يا تحاد، اتح
Portuguese flag Portuguese: confederação Romanian flag Romanian: con­federaţie Russian flag Russian: конфедерация
Slovak flag Slovak: konfederácia Slovenian flag Slovenian: konfederacija Serbian flag Serbian: konfederacija
Swedish flag Swedish: allians, förbund Thai flag Thai: การรวมตัวเพื่อจุดประสงค์บ Turkish flag Turkish: birlik, konfederasyon
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 同盟 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: конфедерація; союз держав Urdu flag Urdu: اتحاد، گ‍ٹھ جوڑ، محاذ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: liên minh Chinese flag Chinese: 同盟

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