confederate

See also: Confederate

English

Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛdəɹət/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛdəɹeɪt/

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Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 21, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     He found some of his confederates in gaol.

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) (dašnakicʿ)
• Bulgarian: , участник в конфедерация (učastnik v konfederacija), съюзен (bg) (sǎjuzen), съюзнически (sǎjuzničeski)

• French: confédéré (fr) m, confédérée (fr) f
• Russian: конфедера́т (ru) m (konfederát), конфедера́тка (ru) f (konfederátka)

an accomplice in a plot

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

• Russian: соуча́стник (ru) (součástnik), соо́бщник (ru) (soóbščnik)

an actor in an experiment

• Russian: подставное лицо́ (podstavnoje licó)

Adjective

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

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

Translations

of, relating to, or united in a confederacy

• Bulgarian: , конфедеративен (konfederativen)

banded together; allied

• Bulgarian:

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.

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Italian

Adjective

confederate

1. feminine plural of confederato

Noun

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

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