federate

1. 1.

   united under a central government

   Synonymsfederated

   Similarunited

Other forms of federate

past tense

federated·

present participle

federating·

third person

federates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about federate

What does federate mean?

federate means "enter into a league for a common purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in federate?

federate has 3 syllables: fed-e-rate. The stress falls on "fed". In IPA it is /ˈfɛdɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for federate?

Close synonyms include federalize, federalise, federalize, federalise, federated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is federate a common word?

federate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with federate?

95 words rhyme with federate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.