Confederacy Synonyms

kən-fĕdər-ə-sē
A union of political organizations
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alliance
  2. confederation
  3. loose union
  4. conspiracy
  5. federation
An association, especially of nations for a common cause
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alliance
  2. anschluss
  3. bloc
  4. cartel
  5. coalition
  6. confederation
  7. federation
  8. league
  9. organization
  10. union
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. confederate-states-of-america
  2. south
  3. dixie
  4. dixieland
  5. the South
  6. secessionists
  7. rebel states
  8. Southern Confederacy
  9. Southern aristocracy
  10. Confederate States
  11. the Rebs
  12. alliance
  13. loose union
  14. confederation
  15. conspiracy
A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conspiracy

Words Related to Confederacy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. connect
  2. group
  3. government
  4. politics
  5. haedui
  6. samnites
  7. arverni
  8. hellene
  9. slav
  10. city-state

Confederacy Sentence Examples

  • Kenner as special commissioner to the courts of England and France to obtain recognition of the Confederacy on condition of the abolition of slavery.

  • At this time the Hatti empire or confederacy probably included, on the west, both Phrygia and Lydia.

  • The branch of the Franks - who were a confederacy, not a people - which gradually overspread Gallia Belgica, bore the name of the Salian Franks..

  • Several causes contributed to the formation of the first Confederacy of Delos.

  • The Delian confederacy lay completely under Athenian control, and the points of strategic importance were largely held by cleruchies (q.v.; see also Pericles) and garrisons.

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