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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Confederate States of America mean? 

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (noun)
  The noun CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA has 1 sense:

1. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861play

  Familiarity information: CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA used as a noun is very rare.


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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Confederate States of America"):

slave state (any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War)

Meronyms (members of "Confederate States of America"):

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)

Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)

Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)

Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Attribute:

south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)

southern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)


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