federal

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 71.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
2. adjective Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
3. adjective Relating to covenantalism.

   federal theology

4. noun A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.
5. noun A law-enforcement official of the FBI.
6. noun A Union soldier in the American Civil War.
7. noun A supporter of federation.

Similar words

federal official national fed union northern federal soldier union soldier government governmental feds

Often followed by

government reserve republic and courts court law trade agencies constitution

Word family

Federal Federals federally federation federations