CREEK CONFEDERACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Creek Confederacy mean? 

• CREEK CONFEDERACY (noun)
  The noun CREEK CONFEDERACY has 1 sense:

1. a North American Indian confederacy organized by the Muskogee that dominated the southeastern part of the United States before being removed to Oklahoma

  Familiarity information: CREEK CONFEDERACY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREEK CONFEDERACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A North American Indian confederacy organized by the Muskogee that dominated the southeastern part of the United States before being removed to Oklahoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Creek Confederacy" is a kind of...):

confederacy; confederation; federation (a union of political organizations)

Meronyms (members of "Creek Confederacy"):

Alabama (a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama)

Hitchiti (a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia; a member of the Creek Confederacy)

Muskogee (a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia and eastern Alabama and constituting the core of the Creek Confederacy)