See also: Confederate

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Pronunciation

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

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confederate (plural confederates)

  1. A member of a confederacy.
  2. An accomplice in a plot.
    1. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
      Synonym: stooge
      • 2011 March 18, David Leavitt, “I Took the Turing Test”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
        So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”?

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Adjective

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confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

  1. Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
  2. Banded together; allied.

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  • 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

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Verb

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

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.
    • 1958, Parliament of Victoria, “Part I, Division 1, section 4”, in Crimes Act 1958[2], page 806:
      All persons who conspire confederate and agree to murder any person whether a subject of Her Majesty or not and whether within the Queen's dominions or not, [] shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years.

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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confederate f pl

  1. feminine plural of confederato

Participle

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confederate f pl

  1. feminine plural of confederato

Etymology 2

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Noun

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confederate f pl

  1. plural of confederata

Etymology 3

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Verb

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confederate

  1. inflection of confederare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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confederate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of confederar combined with te