confederation
Meaning of confederation
- an organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.
a confederation of trade unions
late Middle English: from Old French confederacion or late Latin confederatio(n- ), from Latin confoederare, from con- ‘together’ + foederare ‘join in league with’ (from foedus ‘league, treaty’).
Information about confederation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of confederation is: confederations.
- Languages in which confederation is used:
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Hyphenation of confederation
con-fed-er-a-tion
- It consists of 5 syllables and 13 chars.
- confederation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
confederation synonyms
Meaning alliance:
Meaning confederacy:
Meaning a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for mutual protection or cooperation:
Meaning (often in names) a group of people organized for a joint purpose:
Meaning a temporary alliance for combined action, especially of political parties forming a government:
Meaning a group of people or companies acting together for a commercial purpose:
Meaning an association, typically of several companies:
Meaning the state or process of affiliating or being affiliated:
Meaning a thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together:
Meaning a farm, business, or other organization which is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits:
Meaning an association of two or more people as partners:
Meaning friendly association, especially with people who share one's interests:
Meaning a group of individuals or organizations combined to promote a common interest:
Meaning a small flat case containing face powder, a mirror, and a powder puff:
Meaning a flat, thin strip or loop of material, used as a fastener, for reinforcement, or as decoration:
Meaning a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together:
Meaning a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre):
Meaning a group of people engaged in a shared enterprise, especially one involving illegal or unscrupulous activity:
Meaning the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community:
Meaning the action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context:
Meaning a political system formed by the cooperation of different, especially antagonistic, social groups on the basis of shared power:
Meaning a confraternity or association, especially a Roman Catholic religious guild or brotherhood:
Translation of confederation
- Spanish: confederación
- French: confédération
- Italian: confederazione
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