English Explanatory Dictionary

federal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
  2. Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
  3. Relating to covenantalism.
noun
  1. A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.
  2. A law-enforcement official of the FBI.
  3. A Union soldier in the American Civil War.
  4. A supporter of federation.
noun
  1. A member of a Federal Party
  2. Alternative letter-case form of federal.
  3. Someone on the Union side.
name
  1. A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Pronunciation

/ˈfɛdəɹəl/ /ˈfɛdɹəl/ en-us-federal.ogg

Word forms

federal fœderal fœderall federals

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós Proto-Italic *feiðos Latin foedusder. French fédéralder. English federal From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).

Synonyms

fed

Derived words

anti-federal Federal Capital Territory federal case Federal City federal council federal district federalese federal government federalisation federalise federalism federalist federalization federalize federal law federally federal municipality federalness federal question federal question jurisdiction Federal Republic of Germany Federal Republic of Somalia federal state federal subject federal territory Federal Way federalwide federal yellow FedEx Fedzilla make a federal case out of something nonfederal postfederal prefederal quasifederal unfederal
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