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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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participation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participati?; synchronically analyzable as participate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /p???t?s??pe???n/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???t?s??pe???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n
  • Hyphenation: par?ti?ci?pa?tion

Noun

participation (countable and uncountable, plural participations)

  1. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
  2. The state of being related to a larger whole.
  3. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.
  4. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

Related terms

  • participate
  • participant

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin particip?ti?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa?.ti.si.pa.sj??/

Noun

participation f (plural participations)

  1. participation

Related terms

  • participer

Further reading

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

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