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coalition
English
Alternative forms
- coälition (rare)
Etymology
From French coalition (“coalition”), from Late Latin alo (“I advance (cause, etc., communion)”).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: k??l?'sh?n, IPA(key): /ko???l???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
coalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions)
- A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
- The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- (rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
- 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard
- Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.
- 2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, "Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her", The Daily Mail
- Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.
- 2015 June 11, "This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show", Bristol Post
- This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.
- 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- coalition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- coitional
French
Alternative forms
- coälition (rare)
Etymology
From Late Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.a.li.sj??/
Noun
coalition f (plural coalitions)
- coalition
Further reading
- “coalition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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brotherhood
English
Etymology
From Middle English brotherhod, equivalent to brother +? -hood, from earlier brotherhede, alteration (influenced by suffixes in -hood, -head) of Early Middle English brotherrede (“brotherhood, fraternity”), from Old English br?þorr?den (“brotherhood, fellowship”), equivalent to brother +? -red (see brotherred). More at brother, -red.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??ð?h?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??ð?h?d/
- Hyphenation: broth?er?hood
Noun
brotherhood (countable and uncountable, plural brotherhoods)
- The state of being brothers or a brother.
- An association for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession
- People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, s:Degenerate Douglas
- a brotherhood of venerable trees
- 1800, William Wordsworth, s:Degenerate Douglas
Synonyms
- fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren
Hypernyms
- (state): siblinghood
Translations
See also
- sisterhood
Further reading
- brotherhood in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- brotherhood in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- brotherhood at OneLook Dictionary Search
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