confederation
pronunciation
How to pronounce confederation in British English:
UK [kənˌfedəˈreɪʃn]
How to pronounce confederation in American English:
US [kənˌfedəˈreɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the state of being allied or confederated
- a union of political organizations
- the act of forming an alliance or confederation
Word Origin
- confederation (n.)
- early 15c., "act of confederating," from Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion (14c.), from Late Latin confoederationem (nominative confoederatio), noun of action from confoederare (see confederate). Meaning "states or persons united by a league" is from 1620s.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The irish business and employers confederation is lobbying the government to break the logjam .
- 2. The head of the brazilian football confederation , ricardo teixeira , is fending off corruption claims .
- 3. But the striker maintains he is not in need of a rest after his summer exertions in the confederation cup .
- 4. After the suffering of all of the people of kosovo in the 1990s , we can never have any kind of confederation with serbia .
- 5. Some wishfully liken the tanzim to america 's congress , hoping that it could yet provide an institutional umbrella for a closer confederation of arab states .