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alliance

/əˈlaɪ.əns/

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What does alliance mean?

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.
More meanings (15)

noun

  1. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  2. The persons or parties allied.
  3. (dated) Marriage.
  4. (dated) Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).

proper noun

  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. (historical) The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
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The rich brother-in-law near Bristol was the pride of the alliance, and his place and his carriages were the pride of him.
Jane AustenEmmaProject Gutenberg ebook #158
Great as were the hopes which had been formed from this alliance, they were yet equalled by the disappointment of the event.
Friedrich SchillerThe History of the Thirty Years' WarTranslated by A. J. W. (Alexander James William) MorrisonProject Gutenberg ebook #566
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His wife and daughter were courted by the highest nobility, and their alliance sought by the heirs of ducal and princely houses.
Charles MackayMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #636
Yet if we may judge by the event, Cato was much to blame in rejecting that alliance, which thereby fell to Caesar.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
This re-examination will take account of the progress and experience acquired and will extend to relations between WEU and the Atlantic Alliance.
European UnionThe Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992Project Gutenberg ebook #686