confederation

See also: Confederation and confédération

English

Alternative forms

confœderation (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English confederacion, confideracion and Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederacy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kənfɛdəˈɹeɪʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

confederation (plural confederations)

A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
Synonyms: alliance, confederacy, federation, league
The act of forming an alliance.

Derived terms

Translations

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)

act

Finnish: liittoutuminen

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