Federalist vs politico

Federalist and politico both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Federalist	Yes	No	No	No
politico	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, politico is a hypernym of Federalist; that is, politico is a word with a broader meaning than Federalist:

Federalist: a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government
politico: a person active in party politics

Other hypernyms of Federalist include pol, political leader, politician.

Federalist (noun)	politico (noun)
a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government	a person active in party politics