Synonyms for confederation
kənˌfɛd əˈreɪ ʃəncon·fed·er·a·tion

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1. confederationnoun

   Synonyms:
   federation, confederacy, alliance, league

2. confederationnoun

   In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, league, confederacy, federation

3. Confederationnoun

   In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.

   Synonyms:
   league, federation, alliance, confederacy

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1. confederation

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, coalition, compact, confederacy, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

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1. alliance, confederationnoun

   the state of being allied or confederated

   Synonyms:
   alinement, federation, bond, alliance, coalition, alignment, confederacy

2. confederation, confederacy, federationnoun

   a union of political organizations

   Synonyms:
   confederacy, alliance, conspiracy, federation

3. confederation, alliancenoun

   the act of forming an alliance or confederation

   Synonyms:
   alinement, bond, federation, alignment, coalition, confederacy, alliance

Matched Categories

1. • Group Action
   • Union

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1. confederationnoun

   Synonyms:
   league, CONFEDERACY

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1. confederationnoun

   Synonyms:
   coalition, federation, league, confederacy, union

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1. List of paraphrases for "confederation":

   confederacy, confédération, confederación, gctu, federation, conaie

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How to use confederation in a sentence?

1. Margaret Hilda Thatcher:

   I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

2. William Richardson Davie:

   So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

3. John Adams:

   All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

4. Masrour Barzani:

   Federation hasn't worked, so it has to be either confederation or full separation, if we have three confederated states, we will have equal three capitals, so one is not above the other.

5. Prince Ali:

   I have always promoted cross-regional understanding, however the timing of this MOU between the AFC and the CAF looks like a blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote, africa’s proud football associations are not for sale and development resources belonging to national football associations should not be used by presidential candidates and confederation presidents for political expediency.