confederacy
Meaning of confederacy
noun
- An alliance.
- A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere.
- Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America.
The Blackfoot, Iroquois, and Sioux peoples all were governed as confederacies. There were also multi-ethnic confederacies, such as the Iron Confederacy made up of the Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Stoney, and Saulteaux.
Information about confederacy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of confederacy is: confederacies.
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Hyphenation of confederacy
con-fed-er-acy
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- confederacy is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
confederacy synonyms
Meaning Confederacy:
Confederacy, South, Dixie, Dixieland
Meaning confederation:
Meaning conspiracy:
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