noun the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
— synonyms: Confederate_States, Confederate_States_of_America, South, Dixie, Dixieland
noun a union of political organizations.
— synonyms: confederation, federation
noun a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose.
— synonyms: conspiracy
noun a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act.
— synonyms: conspiracy
Examples
“The Blackfoot, Iroquois, and Sioux peoples all were governed as confederacies. There were also multi-ethnic confederacies, such as the Iron Confederacy made up of the Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Stoney, and Saulteaux.”