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Confederacy vs Guild - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between confederacy and guild

is that confederacy is an alliance while guild is a group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages.

As a proper noun Confederacy

is the informal name for the Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1861, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.

confederacy

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Alternative forms

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Noun

(confederacies)
  • an alliance

    • guild

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia guild) (en noun)
  • A group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages
  • (biology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits

    • Synonyms

    * (group of tradespeople) union, trade union, professional association

    References

    * The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009 * Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003