confederates
Partners in crime
Confederates are allies or accomplices joined in a common purpose, often with secretive or conspiratorial overtones: The thief and his confederates planned the heist.
The verb means to unite or band together.
In American history, Confederates were those who supported or fought for the Confederate States during the Civil War. (Capitalized Confederate specifies the Civil War context.)
Joint participants in conspiracy
- collaboratorsPeople who work jointly
- conspiratorsSecret joint schemers
- abettorsThose aiding lawbreakers
- accessoriesSupplementary items or adornments
henchmen · cohorts · operatives · insiders · underlings · minions · cronies · agents
Temporary alliance for action
- allianceFormal union of parties
- blocAllied group sharing interests
- leagueAssociation or distance unit
- ententeInformal international understanding
union · pact · treaty · axis · consortium · affiliates · associates · members
Formal withdrawal from union
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- slaveryOwnership of people
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
mutiny · sedition · defiance · resistance · dissent · subversion · separatism · breakaway
coconspirators
Joint participants in conspiracy
- collaboratorsPeople who work jointly
- conspiratorsSecret joint schemers
- abettorsThose aiding lawbreakers
accessories · henchmen · cohorts · operatives · insiders · underlings · minions · cronies · agents · deputies
coalition
Temporary alliance for action
entente · union · pact · treaty · axis · consortium · affiliates · associates · members · nations
secession
Formal withdrawal from union
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- slaveryOwnership of people
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
insurrection
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
insurgency · mutiny · sedition · defiance · resistance · dissent · subversion · separatism · breakaway · guerrillas
- SwitzerlandBern, Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Lausanne
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- teamsteam, squad, sports teams, sports team, club teams
- armed forcesarmy, military, soldiers, troops, marines
- partnerspartners, partner, business partners, business partner, associates
confederatesenemies
Hostile opposing parties
foes · opponents · adversaries · antagonists · rivals
confederatestraitors
Those who commit disloyalty
betrayers · turncoats · defectors · backstabbers · moles
- Confederate forcesSecessionist military units
- Confederate StatesSecessionist southern republic
- Confederate flagsEmblems of Southern secession
- Articles of ConfederationOriginal American governing charter
- Confederate ArmySecession states' military
- Confederate troopsSouthern Civil War combatants
confederate, confederation, confederated, confederations, confederating