Usually means: Cooperative relationship between groups, nations.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word alliance:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alliance, alliance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alliance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alliance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alliance, the Alliance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alliance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alliance, alliance: Wordnik
  7. alliance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Alliance, alliance: Wiktionary
  9. alliance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alliance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alliance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Alliance, alliance: Dictionary.com
  13. alliance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alliance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Alliance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alliance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alliance: Rhymezone
  19. alliance, alliance (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alliance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alliance: Free Dictionary
  22. alliance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. alliance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. alliance: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. alliance: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALLIANCE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. alliance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. ALLIANCE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alliance: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Alliance: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alliance, The Alliance: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See alliances as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The state of being allied.
noun:  (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
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.
noun:  (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
noun:  (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
noun:  (India) Marriage.
verb:  (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
noun:  A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.
noun:  A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.
noun:  A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.
noun:  A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
noun:  A village in central Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.
noun:  (UK politics, historical) The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.
noun:  (Northern Ireland, politics) Ellipsis of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

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