Alliance
[ə'laɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim.
(noun.) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the state of being allied or confederated.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
(n.) The persons or parties allied.
(v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Connection, relation, relationship, affinity, family connection.[2]. Union, combination, coalition, federation, copartnership, CONFEDERACY, league, compact, federal compact.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership, league, combination,coalition, confederation, friendship, relation, relationship
ANT:Disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism, separation,estrangement, hostility
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Definition
n. state of being allied: union by marriage or treaty.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Examples
- This Ph?nician alliance sustained him, and was the essential element in the greatness of his son Solomon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But a Greek republic would have been dangerous to all monarchy in a Europe that fretted under the ideas of the Holy Alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her alliance for the time being was with Gerald, and she did not know how far this was admitted by any of the men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Pray, which party has the honour of your alliance? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was in alliance with these that Cortez advanced over the mountains into the valley of Mexico, (1519)[397]. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Suffice it to say that Cr?sus made a defensive alliance both with the Lacedemonians and the Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Advantageous as would be the alliance, and long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not be sacrificed to it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- My alliance with him was the pledge of my sincerity, my union with his sister, my children, his presumptive heirs, were the hostages of my truth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On the whole, Charles, in alliance with Henry VIII, was successful against Francis I and the Turk. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was also urged to attack the Eastern empire by Genseric the Vandal, who was faced by an alliance of the Western and Eastern emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The rich brother-in-law near Bristol was the pride of the alliance, and his place and his carriages were the pride of him. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She brought no name, no blood, no alliance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Israel wars with Judah and the neighbouring states; forms alliances first with one and then with the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They would form alliances, but never coalesce with other city states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Again the little country in between made mistakes in its alliances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Where promises are not observed, there can be no leagues nor alliances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They invaded the Egyptian delta and the African coast to the west, they formed alliances with the Hittites and other Aryan or Aryanized races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the utmost their minds reached out to alliances and leagues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Third, there can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the League of Nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We still read Washington's immortal warning against entangling alliances with full comprehension and an answering purpose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sentence in which that repudiation was expressed was Washington's injunction to avoid entangling alliances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Into the question how far conduct, especially in the matter of alliances, constitutes a forfeiture of family claims, I do not now enter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the various agitations of vigilance committees and alliances for the suppression of the traffic they profess to see continued a work which the abolitionists began. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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