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alliance

English

Alternative forms

  • alliaunce

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /??la?.?ns/
  • Rhymes: -a??ns

Noun

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.
  4. (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
    • 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • (union by relationship in qualities): connection, affinity, union, allyship
  • (act of allying): union
  • (persons or parties allied): coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)

Related terms

  • ally

Translations

Verb

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.

Further reading

  • alliance at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • alliance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • ancillae, canaille

French

Etymology

allier +? -ance

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.lj??s/
  • Rhymes: -??s

Noun

alliance f (plural alliances)

  1. alliance, union
  2. wedding ring

Descendants

  • ? Polish: alians
  • ? Portuguese: aliança
  • ? Russian: ??????? (al?jáns), ???????? (al?jáns)
    • ? Armenian: ?????? (alyans)
    • ? Kazakh: ?????? (al?yans)
  • ? Turkish: alyans

Further reading

  • “alliance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • canaille

Middle English

Noun

alliance

  1. Alternative form of alliaunce

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combining

English

Pronunciation

Verb

combining

  1. present participle of combine

Noun

combining (plural combinings)

  1. The act by which things are combined or brought together.
    • 1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
      these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies

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