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Compeer vs Confederate - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between compeer and confederate

is that compeer is the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else while confederate is a member of a confederacy.

As verbs the difference between compeer and confederate

is that compeer is to be equal with; to match while confederate is to combine into a confederacy.

As an adjective confederate is

of, relating to, or united in a confederacy.

compeer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else
  • * Milton
  • And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be equal with; to match.
  • * Shakespeare
  • In my rights, / By me invested, he compeers the best.

    Anagrams

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    confederate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a member of a confederacy
  • an accomplice in a plot
  • * Macaulay
  • He found some of his confederates in gaol.
  • (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
  • banded together; allied.
  • * Shakespeare
  • All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

    Quotations

    * , Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12 *: Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, *: Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To combine into a confederacy.
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