Usually means: Supporter, partner in a cause.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. -ally, ally: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -ally, ally, ally, ally, ally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ally: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ally: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ally: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ally, ally: Wordnik
  7. ally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ally, -ally, ally: Wiktionary
  9. ally: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ally: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ally: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ally, -ally, ally: Dictionary.com
  13. ally (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ally: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ally (TV series), Ally (name), Ally (novel), Ally (sitcom), Ally: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ally: Rhymezone
  19. ally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ally: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ally: Free Dictionary
  22. ally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ally: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. ally: Legal dictionary
  3. ally: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ally: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ally: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ALLY: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ally: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ally, ally: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See allied as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
verb:  Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
verb:  (reflexive) To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
verb:  (intransitive) Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
noun:  A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
noun:  A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBT), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
noun:  A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
noun:  Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
noun:  (taxonomy) An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.
noun:  (figuratively) A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
noun:  (historical or obsolete) A kinsman or kinswoman; a relative.
noun:  One's relatives; kin, kindred, relations; also, relationship through descent or marriage; kinship.
noun:  People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given names Alice, Alison, Alexandra, or other names beginning with Al-[[]], from the Germanic languages or Ancient Greek
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Alfred, Albert, Alan, Alexander, or other names beginning with Al-[[]], from the Germanic languages, the Celtic languages, or Ancient Greek
noun:  Alternative spelling of alley (“a glass marble or taw”) [A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.]

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