Definitions for Alliance

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Alliance al·li·ance

Spelling: [uh-lahy-uh ns]

IPA: /əˈlaɪ əns/

Alliance is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in Alliance (aaceilln).

Definitions for Alliance

noun

1. the act of allying or state of being allied.
2. a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
3. a merging of efforts or interests by persons, families, states, or organizations:
4. the persons or entities so allied.
5. marriage or the relationship created by marriage between the families of the spouses.
6. correspondence in basic characteristics; affinity:
7. a city in NE Ohio.

Origin of Alliance

1250-1300; Middle English aliance Old French, equivalent to ali(er) to ally + -ance -ance

Examples for Alliance

The alliance between America and rebel forces has been strained by the U.S. refusal to directly attack the Assad regime.

The alliance with the Masai was of too much importance to us for us to wish it dissolved.

We must take them into our alliance, or they will destroy all our theories of self-government.

That alliance between the spy agency and the military, forged in Iraq, would forever change the way America fights wars.

First, one fights with another, then they make an alliance, then they go back to fighting each other.

The book details his confrontations with neoconservatives, and his alliance with Condoleezza Rice.

I know such people will do anything for the honour of such an alliance.'

The Scots are proud of their nobility, alliance to the crown, and logical subtleties.

An amended bill eventually passed that created a new board without all the power Mitchell and the alliance had sought.

And my orders were much like yours--to get the alliance of this M'tela.