confederacy

Meaning of confederacy

noun
  1. An alliance.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:

confederation, federation

Meaning conspiracy:

conspiracy

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