federation

See also: fédération and Federation

English

Alternative forms

• fœderation (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪ̯ʃən/, [ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪ̯ʃən] ~ [ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪ̯ʃn̩]

  • Audio (California):

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• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌfedəˈɹæɪ̯ʃən/, [ˌfedəˈɹæɪ̯ʃən] ~ [ˌfedəˈɹæɪ̯ʃn̩]

  • Audio (Queensland):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: fed‧e‧ra‧tion

Noun

federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)

1. An act of joining together into a single political entity.

   It is 106 years since federation.

2. An array of nations or states that are unified under one central authority.

   Synonyms: federal state; see also Thesaurus:federal country

   Coordinate terms: confederation, confederacy, supranational union

3. Any society or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies.
   • 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 March 2025, page 2:

     FIDE appeals to all chess players and federations to accept this view.

4. (computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.

Derived terms

• Central African Federation
• Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
• defederation
• East African Federation
• federation furniture
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Federation of Malaya
• Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis
• Federation of South Arabia
• Fediverse
• Russian Federation
• West Indies Federation

Related terms

• confederate
• Confederate
• Confederation
• Fed
• federal
• Federal
• federate
• Federation
• federational
• federationalism
• federationalist
• federationism
• federationist
• federative
• feds, Feds

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း (hpaida.re:hrang:)

Translations

array of nations or states

• Afrikaans: federasie
• Albanian: federatë (sq) f
• Amharic: ፌዴሬሽን (federešn)
• Arabic: اِتِّحَادِيَّة f (ittiḥādiyya), فِدِرَالِيَّة f (fidirāliyya)
• Armenian: դաշնություն (hy) (dašnutʻyun)
• Asturian: federación f
• Azerbaijani: federasiya, ittifaq
• Belarusian: федэра́цыя (be) f (fjederácyja), фэдэра́цыя f (federácyja)
• Bengali: ফেডারেশন (pheḍareśon)
• Bulgarian: федера́ция (bg) f (federácija)
• Burmese: အဖွဲ့ချုပ် (my) (a.hpwai.hkyup), ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း (hpaida.re:hrang:)
• Buryat: федераци (fjedjeraci), холбоо (xolboo)
• Carpathian Rusyn: федера́ція f (federácija)
• Catalan: federació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聯邦 / 联邦 (lyun⁴ bong¹)

  Hokkien: 聯邦 / 联邦 (zh-min-nan) (liân-pang)

  Mandarin: 聯邦 / 联邦 (zh) (liánbāng)

• Chuvash: федераци (federatsi)
• Czech: federace (cs) f
• Danish: føderation (da) c
• Dutch: federatie (nl) f, bondsstaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: federacio
• Estonian: föderatsioon
• Faroese: samgonga f
• Finnish: liittovaltio (fi), federaatio (fi)
• French: fédération (fr) f
• Georgian: ფედერაცია (pederacia)
• German: Föderation (de) f, Bund (de) m
• Greek: ομοσπονδία (el) f (omospondía)
• Haitian Creole: federasyon
• Hebrew: פֶדֶרַצְיָה (he) f (federátsya)
• Hindi: महासंघ m (mahāsaṅgh), फ़ेडरेशन (feḍreśan), संघ (hi) m (saṅgh)
• Hungarian: föderáció (hu)
• Icelandic: samband (is) n
• Ido: federuro (io)
• Indonesian: federasi (id), negara berserikat
• Interlingua: federation
• Irish: cónaidhm f, feidearálacht f
• Italian: federazione (it) f
• Japanese: 連邦 (ja) (れんぽう, renpō), 聯邦 (ja) (renpō) (dated), 連盟 (ja) (れんめい, renmei), 聯盟 (ja) (れんめい, renmei) (dated), 同盟 (ja) (どうめい, dōmei)
• Kashubian: federacëjô f
• Kazakh: федерация (federacıya)
• Khmer: សហព័ន្ធ (km) (saʼhaʼpŏən)
• Korean: 연방(聯邦) (ko) (yeonbang), 련방(聯邦) (ko) (ryeonbang) (North Korea), 연합(聯合) (ko) (yeonhap), 련합(聯合) (ko) (ryeonhap) (North Korea), 연맹(聯盟) (ko) (yeonmaeng), 련맹(聯盟) (ko) (ryeonmaeng) (North Korea), 동맹(同盟) (ko) (dongmaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: federasyon (ku)

• Kyrgyz: федерация (ky) (federatsiya)
• Lao: ສະຫະພັນ (lo) (sa ha phan), ສະຫະພັນລັດ (sa ha phan lat)
• Latin: foederātiō f
• Latvian: federācija f
• Lithuanian: federacija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Föderatschoon f

• Macedonian: федерација f (federacija)
• Malay: persekutuan (ms), federasi
• Maltese: federazzjoni f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: холбоо (mn) (xolboo)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: føderasjon (no) m, forbundsstat m

  Nynorsk: føderasjon m, forbundsstat m

• Occitan: federacion (oc) f
• Pannonian Rusyn: федерация f (federacija)
• Papiamentu: federashon
• Pashto: فدارسيون m (federāsyun), فېډرېشن m (feḍerēšan), اتحاد (ps) m (etehād)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: فِدِراسْیون (federâsyon), اِتِّحاد (ettehâd)

• Polish: federacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: federação (pt) f
• Romanian: federație (ro) f
• Russian: федера́ция (ru) f (federácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: федера́ција f

  Latin: federácija (sh) f

• Silesian: federacyjo f
• Slovak: federácia f
• Slovene: federacija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: federacija f

  Upper Sorbian: federacija f

• Southern Altai: федерация (federaciya), биригӱ (birigü)
• Spanish: federación (es) f
• Swahili: shirikisho (sw) class V
• Swedish: federation (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalipunan, pederasyon (tl), sampisanan
• Tajik: федератсия (federatsiya), иттиҳод (ittihod)
• Tamil: கூட்டரசு (kūṭṭaracu)
• Tatar: федерация (federatsiyä)
• Telugu: సమాఖ్య (te) (samākhya)
• Thai: สหพันธรัฐ (sà-hà-pan-tá-rát), สหพันธ์ (th) (sà-hà-pan)
• Tibetan: མཉམ་སྦྲེལ (mnyam sbrel)
• Tigrinya: ፈደረሽን (fädäräšn)
• Turkish: federasyon (tr), ittifak (tr), birlik (tr)
• Turkmen: federasiýa
• Tuvan: федерация (federatsiya)
• Ukrainian: федера́ція f (federácija)
• Urdu: فیڈَریشَن (feḍareśan), اِتِّحاد (ur) m (ittihād), وِفاق m (vifāq)
• Uyghur: فېدېراتسىيە (fëdëratsiye)
• Uzbek: federatsiya (uz), ittifoq (uz), federasiya
• Vietnamese: liên bang (vi) (聯邦)
• Volapük: fed (vo)
• Yakut: бэдэрээссийэ (bedereessiye), федерация (federatsiya)
• Yiddish: פֿעדעראַציע f (federatsye)
• Zhuang: lenzbangh

society or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯合會 / 联合会 (zh) (liánhéhuì)

• Dutch: federatie (nl) f
• Finnish: liitto (fi)
• Hungarian: szövetség (hu)
• Tamil: கூட்டமைப்பு (ta) (kūṭṭamaippu)
• Tibetan: མཉམ་སྦྲེལ (mnyam sbrel)
• Tuvan: федерация (federatsiya), эвилел (evilel)
• Vietnamese: liên đoàn (vi), liên hiệp (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿעדעראַציע f (federatsye)

Adjective

federation (not comparable)

1. (Australia) Of an architectural style popular around the time of federation.

   We live in a federation house.

   • 2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, page 221:

     The Federation house claimed a unique place in architecture, even if it offended architects.

   • 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook, page 754:

     Five Chimneys, 15 Maria St, T8563 0240. Comfortable accomodation ^[sic] in large federation house, spa, swimming pool.

   • 2010, Adrian Franklin, Collecting the 20th Century, page 27:

     Plaster kookaburras from the 1930s would still look good in a nature-themed Federation house; h27 cm.

Danish

Noun

federation c (singular definite federationen, plural indefinite federationer)

1. unofficial form of føderation

Declension

Declension of federation

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	federation	federationen	federationer	federationerne
genitive	federations	federationens	federationers	federationernes

Synonyms

• forbundsstat

Swedish

Noun

federation c

1. federation; an array of states or nations

Declension

Declension of federation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	federation	federations
	definite	federationen	federationens
plural	indefinite	federationer	federationers
	definite	federationerna	federationernas

Related terms

• federal