federal

• fœderal (obsolete)
• fœderall (obsolete)

From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛdəɹəl/, /ˈfɛdɹəl/

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federal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of Providence over Publick States”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 3rd book, paragraph 27, page 113:

     Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute.

2. Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
3. (theology) Relating to covenantalism.

   federal theology

4. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (slang) Intrusive; airing out another's personal affairs.

federal (plural federals)

1. A federal agent
   1. (US) A law-enforcement official of the FBI.
   2. (US, historical) A Union soldier in the American Civil War.
2. A supporter of federation.

• fed (noun)

• Elfreda

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fə.ðəˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fe.ðeˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al

federal m or f (masculine and feminine plural federals)

1. federal

• federalisme
• federalista
• federalment

federal m (plural federals)

1. blackbird (any of various birds in the New World family Icteridae)

• federal capgroc
• federal cap-roig
• federal safrà

• “federal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “federal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “federal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “federal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Dutch federaal, from French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).

• IPA^(key): [fɛdəˈral]
• Hyphenation: fè‧dê‧ral
• Rhymes: -al

federal (comparative lebih federal, superlative paling federal)

1. federal

• “federal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: fe‧de‧ral

federal m or f (plural federais)

1. federal

Borrowed from French fédéral.

• IPA^(key): /fe.deˈral/

federal m or n (feminine singular federală, masculine plural federali, feminine and neuter plural federale)

1. federal

• federație

• IPA^(key): /fedeˈɾal/ [fe.ð̞eˈɾal]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fe‧de‧ral

federal m or f (masculine and feminine plural federales)

1. federal

federal m (plural federales)

1. a federal law enforcement officer
   1. (Mexico) federal law enforcement officer belonging to the Mexican government
   2. (US) federal law enforcement officer belonging to the United States
2. the scarlet-headed blackbird, Amblyramphus holosericeus

• English: federale, Federale

• “federal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

federal (not comparable)

1. federal

• delstatlig
• global
• kommunal
• lokal
• nationell
• regional
• statlig