alliance
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From Old French aliance (French: alliance).
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alliance (countable and uncountable; plural alliances)
- (uncountable) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
- (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
- The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. --C. J. Smith.
- The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. --Mansel.
- The persons or parties allied. --Udall.
- (countable) A treaty between nations for their mutual advantage
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state of being allied
union resembling that of families or states
persons or parties allied
treaty between nations
[edit] External links
- alliance at OneLook Dictionary Search
- alliance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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Old French aliance, from alier (modern: allier) "to ally" (compare with Late Latin alligantia).
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alliance f. (plural alliances)
