Definition of confederate

• a. - United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
• a. - Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
• n. - One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
• n. - A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
• v. t. - To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
• v. i. - To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.