confederacy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An alliance.
  2. A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere.
  3. Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America.
    — The Blackfoot, Iroquois, and Sioux peoples all were governed as confederacies. There were also multi-ethnic confederacies, such as the Iron Confederacy made up of the Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Stoney, and Saulteaux.

词形变化

confederacies plural confœderacy alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Old Swiss Confederacy Swiss Confederacy

词源

From Middle English confederacie, from Anglo-Norman confederacie, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederation.
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