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Etymology
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From Middle English confederacion, confideracion and Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederacy.
Pronunciation
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confederation (plural confederations)
- A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
- Synonyms: alliance, confederacy, federation, league
- The act of forming an alliance.
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union or alliance
- Afrikaans: konfederasie
- Albanian: konfederatë (sq) f
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: حكومت اجتماعيه (hökumæt-i-ijtimā'yie), حكومت مجتمعه (hökumæt-i-mujtæmæ)
- Roman: konfedarasiya
- Bulgarian: конфедерация f (konfederacija)
- Catalan: confederació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 邦聯/邦联 (zh) (bānglián)
- Czech: konfederace f
- Dutch: statenbond m, confederatie (nl) f
- Estonian: konföderatsiooni
- Finnish: liitto (fi); valtioliitto (fi) (between states)
- French: confédération (fr) f
- Galician: confederación (gl) f
- German: Bund (de) m, Bündnis (de) n, Konföderation (de) f, Eidgenossenschaft (de) f, Staatenbund (de) m, Staatenbündnis n
- Greek: συνομοσπονδία (el) f (synomospondía), κοινόν n (koinón), ένωση (el) f (énosi)
- Haitian Creole: konfederasyon
- Hungarian: konföderáció (hu), államszövetség (hu)
- Icelandic: sviss n
- Ido: federuro (io)
- Indonesian: konfederasi (id)
- Irish: cónaidhm m
- Italian: confederazione (it) f
- Japanese: 国家連合 (こっかれんごう, kokka rengō), コンフェデレーション (konfederēshon)
- Korean: 연합 (ko) (yeonhap)
- Latvian: konfederācija f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konføderasjon m
- Nynorsk: konføderasjon m
- Ottoman Turkish: عهدلشمه (âhdleşme), معاهده (muâhede), معاقدت (mu'aqadet), مواثقت (muâśaqat), متفقین (muttefiqîn)
- Polish: konfederacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: confederação (pt) f
- Romanian: confederație (ro) f
- Russian: конфедера́ция (ru) f (konfederácija)
- Scottish Gaelic: co-fhlaitheas m
- Serbo-Croatian: конфедерација f (konfederacija)
- Spanish: confederación (es) f
- Swedish: konfederation (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalaguman
- Thai: สมาพันธ์ (sàmaaphan)
- Turkish: konfederasyon (tr)
- Ukrainian: конфедерація f (konfederacija)
- Vietnamese: liên minh (vi)
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