Noun

• S: (n) Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)
• S: (n) confederation, confederacy, federation (a union of political organizations)
• S: (n) conspiracy, confederacy (a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose)
• member meronym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) set, circle, band, lot (an unofficial association of people or groups) "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"
• S: (n) car pool (a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others are passengers)
• S: (n) clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)
• S: (n) cohort (a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion))
• S: (n) conspiracy, confederacy (a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose)
• S: (n) Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)
• S: (n) horsy set, horsey set (a set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing)
• S: (n) jet set (a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) party, company (a band of people associated temporarily in some activity) "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen"
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) conspiracy, confederacy (a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act)