Confederation

Noun

 * 1) A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
 * 2) The act of forming an alliance.

Adjectives for Confederation
absolute; powerful; vigorous; active; loyal.

Synonyms for Confederation
alliance; confederacy; federation; league

Derived terms
confederationism; confederationist

Thesaurus
affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, anschluss, assemblage, assimilation, association, axis, band, blend, blending, bloc, body, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, college, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, common market, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, corps, council, credit union, customs union, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fusion, gang, group, grouping, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, machine, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mob, package, package deal, partnership, political machine, ring, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding

Alternative forms

 * confœderation

Translations

 * Afrikaans: konfederasie
 * Albanian: konfederatë
 * Azeri: konfedarasiya
 * Bulgarian: конфедерация
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: konföderatsiooni
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sviss


 * Indonesian: konfederasi
 * Irish: cónaidhm
 * Italian: confederazione
 * Japanese: 国家連合, コンフェデレーション
 * Korean: 연합
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: konfederacja
 * Portuguese: confederação
 * Romanian: confederaţie
 * Russian: конфедерация
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: конфедерација
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: สมาพันธ์
 * Ukrainian: конфедерація
 * Vietnamese: liên minh