'Confederacy' definitions:
Definition of 'Confederacy'
From: WordNet
noun
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 [syn: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland]
noun
A union of political organizations [syn: confederation, confederacy, federation]
noun
A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose [syn: conspiracy, confederacy]
noun
A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act [syn: conspiracy, confederacy]
Definition of 'Confederacy'
From: GCIDE
- Confederacy \Con*fed"er*a*cy\, n. (Amer. Hist.) With the, the Confederate States of America. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Confederacy'
From: GCIDE
- Confederacy \Con*fed"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. Confederacies. [From Confederate, a.]
- 1. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. [1913 Webster]
- The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- He hath heard of our confederacy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Virginia promoted a confederacy. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation. [1913 Webster]
- The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed. --Harris. [1913 Webster]
- Virgil has a whole confederacy against him. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
- Syn: League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'confederacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- Anschluss,
- anschluss,
- artifice,
- assemblage,
- assimilation,
- association,
- axis,
- band,
- blend,
- blending,
- bloc,
- body,
- Bund,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- colleagueship,
- college,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- common market,
- complicity,
- complot,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connivance,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- consumer cooperative,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- corps,
- council,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- credit union,
- customs union,
- deep-laid plot,
- economic community,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- engineering,
- enosis,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- frame-up,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- free trade area,
- freemasonry,
- fusion,
- game,
- gang,
- group,
- grouping,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intrigue,
- junction,
- junta,
- league,
- little game,
- machination,
- machine,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- marriage,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- mob,
- package,
- package deal,
- partnership,
- plot,
- plotting,
- political machine,
- rigging,
- ring,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- stratagem,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- trick,
- underplot,
- unification,
- union,
- web of intrigue,
- wedding,
- wire-pulling