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# alliance

«alliance» in Mova's school dictionary: **an agreement between countries, groups or people to work…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an alliance, alliances)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An alliance is an agreement between countries, groups or people to work together or to help and protect each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#m1)

2) An alliance is also the group of countries or people who have made such an agreement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and politics lessons, alliances explain why wars spread: before the First World War, countries were in two big alliances. Today NATO is a military alliance in which members agree to defend each other if attacked. In stories and games, characters form alliances to defeat a common enemy. Phrases: «form an alliance», «make an alliance», «in alliance with», «military alliance», «NATO alliance».

### examples

- The two kingdoms formed an alliance against the invaders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x1)
- NATO is an alliance of many countries in Europe and North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x2)
- In the game, we made an alliance with the other team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x3)
- The alliance broke when one side cheated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x4)
- The countries signed an alliance to protect each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x5)
- In the story, the mice made an alliance with the birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x6)
- He told her how important such an alliance would be, and pressed her to consent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/#x7)

### note

Use «an»: «an alliance». Verb: «ally» (to join with); a member is «an ally» (plural «allies»). Spelled with -ance. An alliance is a deal; members can still disagree or leave.

### In the corpora

- [The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also called the Iroquois, joined five, later six, nations in a lasting alliance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alliance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alliance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.