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      alliance
      noun
      (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
      (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
      (uncountable) The state of being allied.
      (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
      (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
      A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.
      An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
      A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.
      A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.
      A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.
      A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
      A village in central Alberta, Canada.
      A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.
      (Northern Ireland, politics) Ellipsis of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
      (dated or India) Marriage.
      (taxonomy, dated) Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).
      (UK politics, historical) The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.
      verb
      (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
      Roots
      ligoli- · Latin · bind
      Synonyms for alliance
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      Words related to alliance
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