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alliance

noun
/əˈlaɪ.əns/US

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-.

  1. derived from alliance
  2. derived from aliance
  3. inherited from alliaunce

Definitions

  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…

    A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

    • matrimonial alliances
    • an alliance between church and state, or welded by two countries
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. Any union resembling that of families or states

      Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

      • And as for kindred , there is no Alliance neerer vnto any one, than their Countrey , that is to be vnto vs another God, and our prime and deareſt Parent.
      • the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
      • the alliance […] between logic and metaphysics

    2. The persons or parties allied.

    3. Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).

    4. To connect or unite by alliance

      To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

    5. A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now…

      A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.

    6. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.

    7. A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.

    8. A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.

    9. A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.

    10. A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.

    11. A village in central Alberta, Canada.

    12. A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.

    13. Ellipsis of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

    14. The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal…

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

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at alliance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01alliance02treaty03international04association05associating06associate07joined08join

A definitional loop anchored at alliance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at alliance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA