Meaning of Confederate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. A citizen of the Confederate States of America.
   historical
3. An accomplice in a plot.
4. A supporter of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
   historical
5. An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
6. A supporter of Irish Catholic self-rule during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

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“He found some of his confederates in gaol.”

“So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”?”

“In fact, I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated.”

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