confederate
Meanings
Plural: confederates
Noun
- a supporter of the Confederate States of America
- someone who assists in a plot
- a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
- A member of a confederacy.
- An accomplice in a plot.
- An accomplice in a plot.
- An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
Verb
- form a group or unite
- form a confederation with; of nations
- To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.
Adjective Satellite
- of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
- "Confederate soldiers"
- united in a confederacy or league
Adj
- Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
- Banded together; allied.
- Confederated.
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1387, in Middle english; inherited from Middle English confederat(e) (“confederated, allied, associated in a plot; united or bound, as in friendship or troth”), borrowed from Late Latin cōnfoederātus perfect passive participle of cōnfoederō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. By surface analysis, con- + federate.
Synonyms
accomplice, allied, band together, collaborator, confederative, henchman, partner in crime, stooge
Scrabble Score: 17
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