alliance
The state of being allied.
Other meanings
The act of allying or uniting.
A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
Related words
- alliancer
- antialliance
- counteralliance
- misalliance
- realliance
- suballiance
- airline alliance
- gay-straight alliance
- quasi-alliance
- red-green alliance
- red-green-brown alliance
- unholy alliance
Example sentences
Word history
From French "alliance".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “alliance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.