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CONFEDERACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
Synonyms:
confederacy; conspiracy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("confederacy" is a kind of...):
agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confederacy"):
conspiracy of silence (a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
Synonyms:
confederacy; conspiracy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("confederacy" is a kind of...):
band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups)
Meronyms (members of "confederacy"):
coconspirator; conspirator; machinator; plotter (a member of a conspiracy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A union of political organizations
Synonyms:
confederacy; confederation; federation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("confederacy" is a kind of...):
union (a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confederacy"):
nation (a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes))
Creek Confederacy (a North American Indian confederacy organized by the Muskogee that dominated the southeastern part of the United States before being removed to Oklahoma)
Hanseatic League (a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669)
Derivation:
confederate (form a confederation with; of nations)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
Synonyms:
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Confederacy"):
slave state (any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War)
Meronyms (members of "Confederacy"):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)
Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)
N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)
Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)
Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)
LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)
AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Attribute:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
southern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
