Definition of confederate
1 : united in a league : allied
2 capitalized : of or relating to the Confederate States of America
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Slave-owning father Meacham said he's discovered a lot about Pate, who was a private in the Confederate Army.
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Talk of the country’s divides took the men’s thoughts to President Barack Obama and the recent uproar over whether to remove Confederate statues and monuments from public squares.
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A black Mississippi citizen is taking his case against the state's Confederate-themed flag to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A Confederate statue outside Kentucky’s University of Louisville was also removed (though it was relocated elsewhere).
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Summers said Thursday after a meeting of the board that oversees the Confederate Relic Room, where the flag is currently stored.
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What started as a relatively peaceful rally decrying how streets in Hollywood were named after Confederate generals wound up with five people being arrested during the Hollywood City Commission meeting on Wednesday afternoon.
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Last year McKissic succeeded in having the SBC endorse a resolution condemning the Confederate flag as a symbol of racial injustice.
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Leaders have been trying to diversify, repeatedly condemning racism in formal resolutions from past meetings, rejecting display of the Confederate flag and electing more black officers.
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Origin and Etymology of confederate
Middle English confederat, from Late Latin confoederatus, past participle of confoederare to unite by a league, from Latin com- + foeder-, foedus compact — more at federal
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confederate
Definition of confederate
1 : ally, accomplice
2 capitalized : an adherent of the Confederate States of America or their cause
Examples of confederate in a Sentence
the Yankees and the Confederates
the police were able to track down his confederates once the thief started talking
Recent Examples of confederate from the Web
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Then, as now, city commissioners have heard arguments in favor of preserving Florida’s Confederate heritage, including from pro-Confederates who showed up at last week’s protest.
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In New Orleans, four confederate statues — of Gens.
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Charles Corbit led a cavalry charge against the confederates.
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Part of the shift has had to do with the descendants of Confederates changing their political affiliations but also in the shift in population as the coalfields emptied out and growth came to North Central West Virginia and the eastern panhandle.
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King Alcohol—a hymn on him, the last mighty confederate against cold, soberness, hunger, sleeplessness, and a special kind of ghosts.
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The inscription on the monuments talks about the principles that gave birth to the confederate cause.
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There are former Confederates who sought redeem themselves—
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At its peak, the 16-acre prison held 3,200 Confederates.
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First Known Use of confederate
15th century
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Definition of confederate
confederated
;confederating
transitive verb
: to unite in a confederacy
intransitive verb
: to band together
Examples of confederate in a Sentence
the nations confederated in order to lower international trade barriers
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The jury would not be allowed to know about Tensing’s Great Smoky Mountains confederate flag T-shirt.
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First Known Use of confederate
1531
CONFEDERATE Defined for English Language Learners
confederate
Definition of confederate for English Language Learners
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: a person who helps someone do something
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Confederate : a soldier, citizen, or supporter of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
CONFEDERATE Defined for Kids
Definition of confederate for Students
1 : united in a league
2 cap : of or relating to the southern Confederacy Her grandfather collected Confederate stamps.
Definition of confederate for Students
1 : a member of a league of persons, parties, or states
2 : accomplice
3 cap : a soldier of or a person who sided with the southern Confederacy
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