confederate
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Is confederate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete or archaic, as a participle) Confederated.Examples: "Remember as thou read'ſt, thy promiſe paſt : I do repent me, reade not my name there, My heart is not confederate with my hand."; "And it was told the house of Dauid, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim: and his heart was moued, and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood are mooued with the wind."archaicobsolete
noun (English)
1. An accomplice in a plot.Examples: "So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”?"Synonyms: stooge
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.Examples: "All persons who conspire confederate and agree to murder any person whether a subject of Her Majesty or not and whether within the Queen's dominions or not, […] shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years."ambitransitive
adj (English)
1. (historical) Of or relating to the Confederate States of America.Examples: "Yes. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Attorney General and the unfortunate result of Dobby the house elf’s one-night stand with the Confederate flag, got in trouble this-, (enjoy!) got in trouble this week for undisclosed meetings with Russia’s ambassadors, something which, in itself, is not against the law."Synonyms: rebel, southern, southronhistoricalnot-comparable
2. (historical) Of or relating to the political movement in favour of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.historicalnot-comparable
3. (historical) Of or relating to Confederate Ireland or the Irish Confederate Wars.historicalnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (historical) A citizen of the Confederate States of America.Examples: "In fact, I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated."Synonyms: rebel, Johnny Reb, southron, Southernerhistorical
2. (historical) A supporter of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.historical
3. (historical) A supporter of Irish Catholic self-rule during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.historical
Definition source: Wiktionary