'Faction' definitions:
Definition of 'faction'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Faction'
From: GCIDE
- Faction \Fac"tion\ (f[a^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [L. factio a doing, a company of persons acting together, a faction: cf. F. faction See Fashion.]
- 1. (Anc. Hist.) One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Tumult; discord; dissension. [1913 Webster]
- They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. --Clarendon.
- Syn: Combination; clique; junto. See Cabal. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'faction'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- age group,
- aggressiveness,
- American Party,
- antagonism,
- Anti-Monopoly Party,
- argumentation,
- band,
- battalion,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- bevy,
- bickering,
- bloc,
- body,
- branch,
- breakaway group,
- brigade,
- Bull Moose Party,
- bunch,
- cabal,
- cadre,
- camarilla,
- camp,
- cast,
- caucus,
- church,
- circle,
- city hall,
- clannishness,
- clanship,
- clash,
- clashing,
- clique,
- cliqueyness,
- cliquishness,
- cliquism,
- coalition,
- cohort,
- combativeness,
- combine,
- communion,
- Communist Party,
- community,
- company,
- complement,
- conflict,
- Conservative Party,
- Constitutional Union Party,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contingent,
- contradiction,
- controversy,
- corps,
- coterie,
- covey,
- crew,
- crowd,
- Democratic Party,
- Democratic-Republican Party,
- denomination,
- denominationalism,
- detachment,
- detail,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discrepancy,
- disharmony,
- disparity,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissonance,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- diversity,
- division,
- esprit de corps,
- ethnic group,
- ethnocentricity,
- exclusiveness,
- factionalism,
- factiousness,
- Farmer-Labor Party,
- Federalist Party,
- fellowship,
- flak,
- fleet,
- Free Soil Party,
- gang,
- Greenback Party,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- in-group,
- inaccordance,
- inequality,
- infighting,
- interest,
- interest group,
- intrigue,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- jarring,
- junta,
- junto,
- Know-Nothing Party,
- Labour Party,
- Liberal Party,
- Liberal Republican Party,
- Liberty Party,
- litigiousness,
- lobby,
- machine,
- major party,
- minor party,
- minority group,
- mob,
- movement,
- multiple party system,
- National Republican Party,
- negation,
- offshoot,
- one-party system,
- opposition,
- opposition party,
- oppugnancy,
- order,
- organization,
- out-group,
- outfit,
- pack,
- part,
- partiality,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanism,
- partisanship,
- party,
- party in power,
- party spirit,
- peer group,
- persuasion,
- phalanx,
- platoon,
- political machine,
- political party,
- Populist Party,
- posse,
- pressure group,
- Progressive Party,
- Prohibition Party,
- pugnacity,
- quarrelsomeness,
- regiment,
- religious order,
- Republican Party,
- repugnance,
- rift,
- ring,
- rupture,
- salon,
- schism,
- school,
- sect,
- sectarianism,
- sectarism,
- sectionalism,
- sedition,
- segment,
- set,
- shrewishness,
- side,
- silent majority,
- Socialist Labor Party,
- Socialist Party,
- Socialist Workers Party,
- society,
- splinter,
- splinter group,
- splinter party,
- split,
- squad,
- stable,
- strife,
- string,
- Tammany Hall,
- team,
- third party,
- Tory Party,
- tribe,
- troop,
- troupe,
- two-party system,
- unharmoniousness,
- variance,
- variety,
- version,
- vocal minority,
- Whig Party,
- wing