Confederacy

/kənˈfed·ər·ə·si/ n [C/U] (also confederacy)

Definition

› US history the eleven southern states that left the US and fought against the north in the US Civil War › A confederacy is also a confederation.

(Definition of Confederacy n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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