federation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fed=er=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

federation, n. [Cf. F. fédération.].

•  The act of uniting in a league; confederation.  [1913 Webster]
•  A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

federation, n.
1 a federal group of States.
2 a federated society or group.
3 the act or an instance of federating.

Derivative

federationist n.

Etymology

F f{eacute}d{eacute}ration f. LL foederatio (as FEDERAL)

THESAURUS

federation

Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, absolute monarchy, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, anschluss, aristocracy, assemblage, assimilation, association, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, axis, band, blend, blending, bloc, body, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, coalition government, colleagueship, college, collegialism, collegiality, colonialism, combination, combine, combo, common market, commonwealth, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, corps, council, credit union, customs union, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federal government, federalization, fellowship, feudal system, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fusion, gang, garrison state, gerontocracy, group, grouping, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, limited monarchy, machine, marriage, martial law, meld, melding, merger, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, package, package deal, pantisocracy, partnership, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, political machine, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, ring, self-determination, self-government, social democracy, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, stratocracy, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, tie-in, tie-up, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, unification, union, wedding, welfare state

ROGET THESAURUS

federation

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.