[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alliance \alli"ance\, v. t.
   to connect by alliance; to ally. obs.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alliance \alli"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.
      1913 webster

   2. any union resembling that of families or states; union by
      relationship in qualities; affinity.
      1913 webster

            the alliance of the principles of the world with
            those of the gospel.                  --c. j. smith.
      1913 webster

            the alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics.
                                                  --mansel.
      1913 webster

   3. the persons or parties allied. --udall.
      1913 webster

   syn: connection; affinity; union; confederacy; confederation;
        league; coalition.
        1913 webster
see also:
ally 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

alliance
     n 1: the state of being allied or confederated syn: 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: bond
     3: an organization of people or countries involved in a pact
        or treaty syn: coalition, alignment, alinement
        ant: nonalignment
     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
see also:
confederation bond coalition alignment alinement nonalignment 

[4] : 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

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

alliance
     
         a complete set of cad tools for teaching digital
        cmos vlsi design in universities.  it includes a vhdl
        compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic
        place and route tools.  alliance is the result of a ten years
        effort at university pierre et marie curie paris vi, france.
     
        it runs on sun-4, not well supported: mips/ultrix,
        386/systemv.
     
        current version: 1.1, as of 1993-02-16.
     
        1993-02-16
     
     
see also:
cad cmos vlsi vhdl logic synthesis sun-4 
mips ultrix 386 systemv 

[6] : 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.
   

[7] : 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.

[8] : 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.

[9] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

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.

[10] : 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 codes: 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 codes: 44601

[11] : 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

[12] : 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

[13] : 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

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