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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)
- (uncountable) The state of being allied.
- (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
- (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
- (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
- 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated
- (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)
- (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)
- alliance, union
- 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
- Alternative form of alliaunce
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crew
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kroo?, IPA(key): /k?u?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru
Etymology 1
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- A group of people together
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
- A group of people working together on a task.
- (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
- (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
- (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
- And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
- They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
- But his soul is marching on.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
- (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
- (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A person in a crew
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
- (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
- The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
Synonyms
- (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
- (group engaged in a task): team, gang
- (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
- (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
- (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
- (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
- (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
- (non-officer ship worker): seaman
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)
- (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
- To be a member of a work or production crew
- To supply workers or sailors for a crew
- (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
- (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
Derived terms
- crewer
- uncrewed
- crew up
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
crew
- (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
- It was still dark when the cock crew.
Etymology 3
Probably of Brythonic origin.
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
Derived terms
- crewyard
Etymology 4
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- The Manx shearwater.
Gallery
See also
- Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
- Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
Noun
crew m (plural crews)
- crew
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