English
Etymology
Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪʃn̩/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)
- Act of joining together into a single political entity.
It is 106 years since federation.
- Array of nations or states that are unified under one central authority which is elected by its members.
- Synonyms: federal state; see also Thesaurus:federal country
- Any society or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies.
- (computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
array of nations or states
- Afrikaans: federasie
- Albanian: federatë (sq) f
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Kazakh: федерация (federasiä)
- 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
- Pashto: فدارسيون m (federāsyun), فېډرېشن m (feḍerēšan), اتحاد (ps) m (etehād)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: فِدِراسِیون (federâsiyon), اِتِّحاد (ettehâd)
- Polish: federacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: federação (pt) f
- Romanian: federație (ro) f
- Russian: федера́ция (ru) f (federácija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: федера́ција f
- Roman: federácija (sh) f
- Slovak: federácia f
- Slovene: federacija f
- Spanish: federación (es) f
- Swedish: federation (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalipunan, pederasyon (tl), sampisanan
- Tajik: федерасия (federasiya), иттиҳод (ittihod)
- Tatar: федерация (federatsiyä)
- Telugu: సమాఖ్య (te) (samākhya)
- Thai: สหพันธรัฐ (sà-hà-pan-tá-rát), สหพันธ์ (th) (sà-hà-pan)
- Tibetan: མཉམ་སྦྲེལ (mnyam sbrel)
- Turkish: federasyon (tr), ittifak (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)
- Votic: federaattsijõ
- Yakut: бэдэрээссийэ (bedereessiye), федерация (federatsiya)
- Yiddish: פֿעדעראַציע f (federatsye)
- Zhuang: lenzbangh
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Adjective
federation (not comparable)
- (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)
- unofficial form of føderation
Declension
Synonyms
Swedish
Noun
federation c
- federation; an array of states or nations
Declension