English Explanatory Dictionary

alliance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being allied.
  2. The act of allying or uniting.
  3. A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
  4. Marriage.
  5. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  6. The persons or parties allied.
  7. Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).
verb
  1. To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
name
  1. A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.
  2. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
  3. A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.
  4. A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.
  5. A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.
  6. A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
  7. A village in central Alberta, Canada.
  8. A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.
  9. Ellipsis of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
  10. The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.

Pronunciation

/əˈlaɪ.əns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-alliance.wav

Word forms

alliance alliances alliaunce alliancing allianced

Etymology

From Middle English alliaunce, from Old French aliance (French alliance). Equivalent to ally + -ance. Compare with Doric Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”). See also al-.

Synonyms

union connection affinity allyship coalition league confederation team cohort

Related words

ally

Derived words

airline alliance alliancer antialliance Blue-Green alliance counteralliance gay-straight alliance Grand Alliance misalliance offensive and defensive alliance quasi-alliance realliance red-green alliance red-green-brown alliance suballiance unholy alliance

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 聯盟 /联盟 Chinese Mandarin: 結盟 /结盟 Chinese Mandarin: 同盟 Chinese Mandarin: 邦聯 /邦联 Finnish: liittouma Finnish: liittoutuma Finnish: liittokunta Finnish: liitto French: alliance Albanian: aleancë Arabic: تَحَالُف Arabic: حِلْف Armenian: ալյանս Armenian: դաշինք Belarusian: саю́з Belarusian: алья́нс Bulgarian: алиа́нс Catalan: aliança Czech: aliance Dutch: alliantie Estonian: liit Estonian: allianss Georgian: ალიანსი German: Allianz German: Bündnis Greek: συμμαχία Hindi: संधि Hindi: गठबंधन Hungarian: szövetség Indonesian: persekutuan Indonesian: aliansi Italian: trattato Latvian: alianse Lithuanian: aljansas Macedonian: алија́нса Norwegian Bokmål: allianse Norwegian Nynorsk: allianse Dari: اِتِّحَاد Dari: اِتِّفَاق Iranian Persian: اِتِّحاد Iranian Persian: اِتِّفاق Polish: alians Polish: sojusz Polish: przymierze Portuguese: aliança Romanian: alianță Russian: сою́з Russian: алья́нс Serbo-Croatian: алѝјанса Serbo-Croatian: alìjansa Slovak: aliancia Slovene: aliansa Lower Sorbian: zwězk Swedish: allians Ukrainian: сою́з Ukrainian: алья́нс
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