alliances
- 1Plural of alliance.
Wartime alliances shifted as new powers entered the conflict.
The company built strategic alliances with several smaller firms in the region.
Note
A plural that counts things, so it draws only on the countable meanings of alliance. The abstract state of being allied stays singular. The plural names pacts and unions between states, parties or families, links of affinity, or the allied parties themselves. In India, where alliance has had a dated use meaning marriage, alliances can refer to marriages.
alliances is a form of alliance
alliance, noun: A union of interests between families, states, or parties, especially families joined by marriage and states bound by treaty or league. Full entry
- Forms
- alliancealliances plural
- Spelling
- alliance → alliances: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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