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Confederacy en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (historical) The collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.
    • Christmas of 1862 had been a happy one for Atlanta, for the whole South. The Confederacy had scored a smashing victory at Fredericksburg and the Yankee dead and wounded were counted in the thousands. 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part II, page 252:

Forms

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the Confederacy canonical lexicographic

Deriveds

Neutral Confederacy

Relateds

Dixie

Synonyms

South · Confederate States of America

Translations (4)

de Konföderation (Confederate States of America) · pl Konfederacja (Confederate States of America) · ga an Chónaidhm (Confederate States of America) · fr Confédération (Confederate States of America)