confederacy   (Sound)

The noun confederacy has 4 senses

• Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland -- (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)


• confederation, confederacy, federation -- (a union of political organizations)


• conspiracy, confederacy -- (a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose)


• conspiracy, confederacy -- (a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act)