alliance
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
alliance
n 1: the state of being allied or confederated [syn: {alliance},
{confederation}]
2: 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" [syn:
{alliance}, {bond}]
3: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact
or treaty [syn: {alliance}, {coalition}, {alignment},
{alinement}] [ant: {nonalignment}, {nonalinement}]
4: a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance
between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
5: the act of forming an alliance or confederation [syn:
{confederation}, {alliance}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Alliance \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.
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2. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by
relationship in qualities; affinity.
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The alliance of the principles of the world with
those of the gospel. --C. J. Smith.
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The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics.
--Mansel.
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3. The persons or parties allied. --Udall.
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Syn: Connection; affinity; union; confederacy; confederation;
league; coalition.
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from
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
ALLIANCE, 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.
from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Alliance
a treaty between nations, or between individuals, for their
mutual advantage.
Abraham formed an alliance with some of the Canaanitish
princes (Gen. 14:13), also with Abimelech (21:22-32). Joshua and
the elders of Israel entered into an alliance with the
Gibeonites (Josh. 9:3-27). When the Israelites entered Palestine
they were forbidden to enter into alliances with the inhabitants
of the country (Lev. 18:3, 4; 20:22, 23).
Solomon formed a league with Hiram (1 Kings 5:12). This
"brotherly covenant" is referred to 250 years afterwards (Amos
1:9). He also appears to have entered into an alliance with
Pharaoh (1 Kings 10:28, 29).
In the subsequent history of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel
various alliances were formed between them and also with
neighbouring nations at different times.
From patriarchal times a covenant of alliance was sealed by
the blood of some sacrificial victim. The animal sacrificed was
cut in two (except birds), and between these two parts the
persons contracting the alliance passed (Gen. 15:10). There are
frequent allusions to this practice (Jer. 34:18). Such alliances
were called "covenants of salt" (Num. 18:19; 2 Chr. 13:5), salt
being the symbol of perpetuity. A pillar was set up as a
memorial of the alliance between Laban and Jacob (Gen. 31:52).
The Jews throughout their whole history attached great
importance to fidelity to their engagements. Divine wrath fell
upon the violators of them (Josh. 9:18; 2 Sam. 21:1, 2; Ezek.
17:16).
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Alliance, NC (town, FIPS 1000)
Location: 35.14448 N, 76.80789 W
Population (1990): 583 (256 housing units)
Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Alliance, NE (city, FIPS 905)
Location: 42.10037 N, 102.87393 W
Population (1990): 9765 (4108 housing units)
Area: 12.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 69301
Alliance, OH (city, FIPS 1420)
Location: 40.91110 N, 81.11715 W
Population (1990): 23376 (9598 housing units)
Area: 21.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 44601
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Alliance, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
Population (2000): 8959
Housing Units (2000): 4062
Land area (2000): 4.767735 sq. miles (12.348377 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012236 sq. miles (0.031691 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.779971 sq. miles (12.380068 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00905
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.101382 N, 102.870272 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69301
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alliance, NE
Alliance
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Alliance, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 781
Housing Units (2000): 304
Land area (2000): 2.005003 sq. miles (5.192933 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.005003 sq. miles (5.192933 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01000
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.143133 N, 76.815333 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alliance, NC
Alliance
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Alliance, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 23253
Housing Units (2000): 9730
Land area (2000): 8.611823 sq. miles (22.304518 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002385 sq. miles (0.006176 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.614208 sq. miles (22.310694 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01420
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.913358 N, 81.108094 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44601
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alliance, OH
Alliance
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ALLIANCE, international law. A contract, treaty, or league between two
sovereigns or states, made to insure their safety and common defence.
2. Alliances made for warlike purposes are divided in general into
defensive and offensive; in the former the nation only engages to defend her
ally in case he be attacked; in the latter she unites with him for the
purpose of making an attack, or jointly waging the war against another
nation. Some alliances are both offensive and defensive; and there seldom is
an offensive alliance which is not also defensive. Vattel, B. 3, c. 6, Sec.
79; 2 Dall. 15.
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ALLIANCE, relationship. The union or connexion of two persons or families by
marriage, which is also called affinity. This is derived from the Latin
preposition ad and ligare, to bind. Vide Inst 1, 10, 6; Dig 38, 10, 4, 3;
and Affinity.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
266 Moby Thesaurus words for "alliance":
Anschluss, Bund, NATO, Rochdale cooperative, SEATO,
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, cabal,
cahoots, capitulation, cartel, centralization, closeness, club,
co-working, 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, 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, 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,
sacrament of matrimony, sameness, saprophytism, 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, tie-up,
ties of blood, treaty, unification, union, united action, unity,
wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding, wedding knot,
wedlock, wifehood
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