CONFEDERATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CONFEDERATION?

Need another word that means the same as “confederation”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “confederation” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Confederation” are: alliance, confederacy, federation, league, association, coalition, combine, consortium, affiliation, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring

Confederation as a Noun

Definitions of "Confederation" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “confederation” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A more or less permanent union of states with some or most political power vested in a central authority.
• An organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.
• The state of being allied or confederated.
• The act of forming an alliance or confederation.
• The action of confederating or the state of being confederated.
• A union of political organizations.

Synonyms of "Confederation" as a noun (19 Words)

affiliation	The state or process of affiliating or being affiliated. Welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university.
alliance	A formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim. An alliance between medicine and morality.
association	The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination. His association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break.
band	A stripe or stripes of contrasting color. Victoria settled the velvet band on her hair.
circle	Something in the shape of a circle. The lamp spread a circle of light.
coalition	A temporary alliance for combined action, especially of political parties forming a government. They had a taste of government in coalition with the Social Democrats.
combine	A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service. One of the world s biggest food and personal products combines.
compact	A mass of powdered metal compacted together in preparation for sintering. Strength is then introduced by infiltrating glass into the compact.
confederacy	A union of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose. The Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities.
conglomerate	A thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together. A media conglomerate.
consortium	An association of companies for some definite purpose. The amount awarded for loss of consortium must be included.
cooperative	An association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it. We run the agency as a workers cooperative.
federation	An organization formed by merging several groups or parties. A first step in the federation of Europe.
fellowship	The status of a fellow of a college or society. The church welcomed new members into its fellowship.
group	A set of elements, together with an associative binary operation, which contains an inverse for each element and an identity element. A methyl group.
league	The contest for the championship of a league. The two men were not in the same league.
partnership	A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal. The partnership now owns 22 department stores.
ring	The sound of a bell ringing E A Poe. A gas ring.
syndicate	An association or agency supplying material simultaneously to a number of newspapers or periodicals. Large scale buyouts involving a syndicate of financial institutions.

Usage Examples of "Confederation" as a noun

• A referendum on confederation.
• Canada became a confederation in 1867.
• A confederation of trade unions.

Associations of "Confederation" (30 Words)

affiliation	The state or process of affiliating or being affiliated. Welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university.
alliance	A formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim. The shifting alliances within a large family.
ally	Become an ally or associate as by a treaty or marriage. He s a good ally in fight.
annex	A building joined to or associated with a main building, providing additional space or accommodation. Hitler annexed Lithuania.
association	A stable plant community including a characteristic group of dominant plant species. Conditioning is a form of learning by association.
club	A nightclub playing fashionable dance music. The gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night.
coalescence	The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts. The lack of coalescence among fields of science.
coalition	The state of being combined into one body. A coalition between Liberals and Conservatives.
collaboration	Something produced in collaboration with someone. They worked either in collaboration or independently.
combination	A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock. These four factors work together in combination.
combine	Combine so as to form a whole mix. Combine resources.
confederacy	A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act. The Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities.
conjugate	A mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions one of A in B and another of B in A. Bilirubin is then conjugated by liver enzymes and excreted in the bile.
consolidation	The action or process of combining a number of things into a single more effective or coherent whole. A consolidation of data within an enterprise.
cooperation	Joint operation or action. They worked in close cooperation with the British Tourist Authority.
federation	An organization or group within which smaller divisions have some degree of internal autonomy. A first step in the federation of Europe.
fusion	An occurrence that involves the production of a union. The election results produced pressure for fusion of the parties.
guild	A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community.
integrate	Become one become integrated. Cities efforts to integrate.
integrated	Resembling a living organism in organization or development. An integrated Europe.
league	Join in a league or alliance. Austin s in a league of his own.
membership	The body of members of an organization or group. A membership card.
national	Owned or maintained for the public by the national government. National forests.
reunify	Restore political unity to (a place or group, especially a divided territory. Will Korea reunify.
synthesis	The tendency in a language to use inflected forms rather than word order to express grammatical structure. The ideology represented a synthesis of certain ideas.
unification	The process of being united or made into a whole. The costs of German unification.
unify	Make or become united, uniform, or whole. The government hoped to centralize and unify the nation.
union	The operation of forming a union. Let C be the union of the sets A and B.
unite	Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. They are united by their love of cars.
united	Characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity. Presented a united front.