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alliance

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Etymology

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

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alliance (countable and uncountable, plural alliances)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being allied.
  2. (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
  3. (countable) 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 between two countries
    1. (dated or India) Marriage.
  4. (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
    • 1624, William Udall, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland:
      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.
    • 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:
      the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
    • 1860, Henry Longueville Mansel, Prolegomena Logica: An Inquiry Into the Psychological Character of Logical Processes:
      the alliance […] between logic and metaphysics
  5. (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
  6. (taxonomy, dated) Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”)

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alliance (third-person singular simple present alliances, present participle alliancing, simple past and past participle allianced)

  1. (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

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alliance c (singular definite alliancen, plural indefinite alliancer)

  1. an alliance

Declension

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Declension of alliance
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative alliance alliancen alliancer alliancerne
genitive alliances alliancens alliancers alliancernes

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Etymology

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From allier +‎ -ance.

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alliance f (plural alliances)

  1. alliance, union
  2. wedding ring

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Middle English

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alliance

  1. Alternative form of alliaunce
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