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Alliance
| Alliance Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Alliance?
[n] the act of forming an alliance or confederation
[n] a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
[n] an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
[n] a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest; "the shifting alliances within a large family"; "their friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them"
[n] the state of being allied or confederated
Synonyms | Synonyms for Alliance: alignment |
alinement |
bond |
coalition |
confederation |
confederation
Related Terms | Find terms related to Alliance: a world-without-end bargain |
accompaniment |
accord |
accordance |
addition |
adjunct |
affairs |
affiliation |
affinity |
agglomeration |
aggregation |
agnation |
agreement |
alignment |
alikeness |
amalgamation |
analogy |
ancestry |
Anschluss |
aping |
approach |
approximation |
assemblage |
assimilation |
association |
axis |
band |
bed |
blend |
blending |
bloc |
blood |
blood relationship |
body |
bond |
bond of matrimony |
bridebed |
brotherhood |
brothership |
Bund |
cabal |
cahoots |
capitulation |
cartel |
centralization |
closeness |
club |
coaction |
coadunation |
coalescence |
coalition |
cognation |
cohabitation |
coincidence |
collaboration |
colleagueship |
collectivity |
college |
collegialism |
collegiality |
collusion |
combination |
combine |
combined effort |
combo |
common ancestry |
common descent |
common market |
community |
comparability |
comparison |
composition |
comradeship |
concert |
concerted action |
concomitance |
concord |
concordance |
concordat |
concourse |
concurrence |
confederacy |
confederation |
confluence |
conformity |
confraternity |
congeries |
conglomeration |
conjugal bond |
conjugal knot |
conjugation |
conjunction |
connectedness |
connection |
consanguinity |
consilience |
consolidation |
conspiracy |
consumer cooperative |
contiguity |
contrariety |
convention |
cooperation |
cooperative |
cooperative society |
copartnership |
copartnery |
copying |
corps |
correspondence |
council |
cousinhood |
cousinship |
coverture |
co-working |
credit union |
customs union |
dealings |
deduction |
disjunction |
economic community |
ecumenism |
embodiment |
enation |
encompassment |
enosis |
entente |
entente cordiale |
fatherhood |
federalization |
federation |
fellowship |
filiation |
fraternalism |
fraternity |
fraternization |
free trade area |
freemasonry |
fusion |
gang |
group |
grouping |
holy matrimony |
holy wedlock |
homology |
hookup |
husbandhood |
identity |
ill-assorted marriage |
imitation |
inclusion |
incorporation |
integration |
intercourse |
intermarriage |
international agreement |
interracial marriage |
intimacy |
junction |
junta |
kindred |
kinship |
league |
liaison |
likeness |
likening |
link |
linkage |
linking |
machine |
marriage |
marriage bed |
marriage sacrament |
match |
maternity |
matrilineage |
matriliny |
matrimonial union |
matrimony |
matrisib |
matrocliny |
meld |
melding |
merger |
mesalliance |
metaphor |
mimicking |
misalliance |
miscegenation |
mixed marriage |
mob |
motherhood |
mutual attraction |
mutual-defense treaty |
NATO |
nearness |
nonaggression pact |
nuptial bond |
order |
package |
package deal |
pact |
paction |
parallelism |
parasitism |
parity |
partnership |
paternity |
patrilineage |
patriliny |
patrisib |
patrocliny |
political machine |
propinquity |
proximity |
rapport |
relatedness |
relation |
relations |
relationship |
resemblance |
ring |
Rochdale cooperative |
sacrament of matrimony |
sameness |
saprophytism |
SEATO |
semblance |
sibship |
similarity |
simile |
similitude |
simulation |
simultaneity |
sisterhood |
sistership |
society |
sodality |
solidification |
sorority |
spousehood |
symbiosis |
sympathy |
synchronism |
syncretism |
syndication |
syneresis |
synergy |
synthesis |
tie |
tie-in |
ties of blood |
tie-up |
treaty |
unification |
union |
united action |
unity |
wedded bliss |
wedded state |
weddedness |
wedding |
wedding knot |
wedlock |
wifehood
See Also | accord |
allies |
ally |
axis |
bloc |
coalition |
combination |
connectedness |
connection |
connexion |
entente |
entente cordiale |
fusion |
group action |
international organisation |
international organization |
organisation |
organization |
pact |
popular front |
treaty |
world organisation |
world organization
Alliance In Webster's Dictionary
\Al*li"ance\, n. [OE. aliaunce, OF. aliance, F.
alliance, fr. OF. alier, F. allier. See {Ally}, and cf. LL.
alligantia.]
1. The state of being allied; 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; as,
matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and
state; an alliance between France and England.
2. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by
relationship in qualities; affinity.
The alliance of the principles of the world with
those of the gospel. --C. J. Smith.
The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics.
--Mansel.
3. The persons or parties allied. --Udall.
Syn: Connection; affinity; union; confederacy; confederation;
league; coalition.
\Al*li"ance\, v. t.
To connect by alliance; to ally. [Obs.]
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