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) (učastnik v konfederacija), съюзен (bg) (sǎjuzen), съюзнически (bg) (sǎjuzničeski)

an accomplice in a plot

• Bulgarian: заговорник (bg) (zagovornik), съучастник (bg) (sǎučastnik)

• Russian: соучастник (ru) (součastnik), сообщник (ru) (soobščnik)

an actor in an experiment

• Russian: подставное лицо (ru) (podstavnoje lico)

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) (konfederativen)

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