Dictionary Entry
confederate
confederate is a 11-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
- 2adjective
Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
- 3noun
One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
- 4noun
A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
- 5transitive verb
To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
- 6intransitive verb
To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
- 7noun
a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
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- 8noun
someone who assists in a plot
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- 9noun
a supporter of the Confederate States of America
- 10verb
form a confederation with; of nations
- 11verb
form a group or unite
"The groups banded together"
- 12adjective
of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
"Confederate soldiers"
- 13adjective
united in a confederacy or league
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