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federal

adj
/ˈfɛdəɹəl/

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”).

  1. derived from fédéral

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a league or treaty

    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,…

    Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.

  3. Relating to covenantalism.

    • federal theology
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.

    2. A Union soldier in the American Civil War.

    3. A supporter of federation.

    4. A member of a Federal Party

    5. Alternative letter-case form of federal.

    6. Someone on the Union side.

    7. A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at federal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01federal02treaty03organizations04organization05organized06unionized07union08confederation

A definitional loop anchored at federal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at federal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA