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alliance
1[ uh-lahy-uhns ]
noun
Synonyms: affiliation, partnership, bloc, combination, coalition, association
- a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
- a merging of efforts or interests by persons, families, states, or organizations:
an alliance between church and state.
- the persons or entities so allied.
- marriage or the relationship created by marriage between the families of the spouses.
- correspondence in basic characteristics; affinity:
the alliance between logic and metaphysics.
Alliance
2[ uh-lahy-uhns ]
noun
- a city in NE Ohio.
Alliance
1/ əˈlaɪəns /
noun
- the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
- ( as modifier )
an Alliance candidate
alliance
2/ əˈlaɪəns /
noun
- the act of allying or state of being allied; union; confederation
- a formal agreement or pact, esp a military one, between two or more countries to achieve a particular aim
- the countries involved in such an agreement
- a union between families through marriage
- affinity or correspondence in qualities or characteristics
- botany a taxonomic category consisting of a group of related families; subclass
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Other Words From
- inter·al·liance noun adjective
- nonal·liance noun
- preal·liance noun
- proal·liance adjective
- real·liance noun
- subal·liance noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alliance1
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Example Sentences
First, one fights with another, then they make an alliance, then they go back to fighting each other.
But with GOP governors slashing budgets across the country, can this odd alliance last?
The book details his confrontations with neoconservatives, and his alliance with Condoleezza Rice.
He entered in an awkward alliance with Lapid to join the government but quickly distanced himself from it.
That alliance between the spy agency and the military, forged in Iraq, would forever change the way America fights wars.
But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.
Perhaps, like father, I am a snob at heart and liked the sensation of a sort of artistic alliance with the British aristocracy.
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
They accepted baptism as a sort of sacred pledge of friendship and alliance with the French.
Such an alliance was not to be tolerated for a moment, in connection with the last scion of his name and race.
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