federal

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
• Pertaining to the national government level, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.

Noun

• A law-enforcement official of the FBI; a federal agent.
• A supporter of federation.
• A unionist soldier in the American Civil War.

Related

Similar words

• fed

Origin

• From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus.