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Definition of Confederacy
- a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
- a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
- a union of political organizations
- the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
Hyponyms: conspiracy of silence, nation, Creek Confederacy, Hanseatic League
Attributes: south, southern
Derivational Morphology: conspire, collude, federate, federalize, federalise, confederate, band together
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