confederate

See also Confederate

English

Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

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Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. a member of a confederacy
2. an accomplice in a plot
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a 'stooge').

Translations

a member of a confederacy

Armenian: դաշնակից (hy) (dašnakic’)

Bulgarian: , участник в конфедерация (bg), съюзен (bg), съюзнически (bg)

an accomplice in a plot

Bulgarian: заговорник (bg), съучастник (bg)

Russian: соучастник (ru), сообщник (ru)

an actor in an experiment

Russian: подставное лицо (ru)

Adjective

confederate

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.

Translations

of, relating to, or united in a confederacy

Bulgarian: , конфедеративен (bg)

banded together; allied

Bulgarian:

Quotations

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12

  Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,

  Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

Verb

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. To combine into a confederacy.

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Italian

Adjective

confederate f.

1. Feminine plural form of confederato

Noun

confederate f.

1. Plural form of confederata.

Verb

confederate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
3. Feminine plural of confederato