Confederate States
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- proper noun
- /kənˈfɛdərɪt steɪts/
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Estados Confederados
- In February, the Confederate States of America formed in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Confederate States of America
Examples
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In the opening days of the Civil War, the South selected Jefferson Davis to be the president of the Confederate States of America.
Academic text (2002) -
The Confederate States would act.
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I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
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My commission in the Confederate States Navy names me as captain.
Fiction book (1992) -
By and by, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them to form the Confederate States of America.
Academic text (2011) -
Jefferson Davis, president of the ill-fated Confederate States of America during the Civil War, is also an alumnus.
Blog text (11) -
W. F. Stark was a private in the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Georgia Volunteers who served in the commissary department for the Confederate States of America.
Academic text (2009) -
More than fancy clothes, ladies' shoes, perfumes, and wines, however, what the government of the Confederate States of America needed were uniforms, boots, medicine, weapons, and ammunition.
Academic text (2011) -
Concerning postage rates and differential costs, initial debates in the Confederate States called for differential postage rates when mail would travel more than three hundred miles.
Academic text (2010) -
Davis was president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Synonyms
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A group of southern states that left the United States in 1861 and fought the Union
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The southern states of the United States that joined the Confederacy during the Civil War
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The group of southern U.S. states that left the United States to form the Confederacy in 1861
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A group of 11 southern US states that left in 1861 to form their own government during the Civil War
The southern states of the United States that broke away during the Civil War
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'Confederate' (joined in a confederation) + 'States' (political entities) clearly yields 'states that form a confederation', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the basic referent. The specific historical reference to the southern U.S. secession and the 1861–1865 Civil War requires extra background knowledge, but the core meaning is transparently derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Confederate States comes from the idea of several states joining together as a group: Confederate shows they were in a 'confederacy' and States are the regions that joined. So, it refers to the southern states that 'left the United States' in 1861 and formed their own government.