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Confederate vs Partaker - What's the difference?

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Confederate is a related term of partaker.


As nouns the difference between confederate and partaker

is that confederate is a supporter or resident of the confederate states of america while partaker is one who partakes of something.

As an adjective confederate

is of or relating to the confederate states of america.

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.
  • ----

    partaker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who partakes of something
  • The joint was passed around the circle, but he was not a partaker , so he waved it away.

    Synonyms

    * (one who partakes) imbiber, member, participant, user

    Antonyms

    * (one who partakes) abstainer, faster, refuser