Antonyms for alliance
əˈlaɪ ənsal·liance

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1. alliance

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Synonyms:
   coalition, compact, confederacy, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. alliance

   Antonyms:
   disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism, separation, estrangement, hostility

   Synonyms:
   compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership, league, combination, coalition, confederation, friendship, relation, relationship

Matched Categories

1. • Coalition
   • Connection
   • Group Action
   • Organization
   • Treaty

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.1 / 9 votes

1. alliance, confederationnoun

   the state of being allied or confederated

   Synonyms:
   alinement, federation, bond, coalition, alignment, confederation, confederacy

2. alliance, bondnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   alinement, bail bond, bond certificate, adhesiveness, adherence, shackle, hamper, bond paper, adhesion, attachment, confederation, bail, chemical bond, trammel, coalition, alignment, bond

3. alliance, coalition, alignment, alinementnoun

   an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

   Synonyms:
   alinement, coalescence, bond, concretion, conglutination, fusion, coalition, alignment, confederation, conjunction, coalescency

4. alliancenoun

   a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim

   Synonyms:
   alinement, alignment, bond, coalition, confederation

5. confederation, alliancenoun

   the act of forming an alliance or confederation

   Synonyms:
   alinement, bond, federation, alignment, coalition, confederation, confederacy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. alliancenoun

   Synonyms:
   union, coalition, federation, confederacy, league, affinity, affiliation, connection, relationship

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ALLIANCE

   Synonyms:
   Aggressive Lipid Lowering Initiation Abates New Cardiovascular Events

How to use alliance in a sentence?

1. Estonian Defense Minister Sven Mikser:

   Over the past year and a half we've seen the security situation in Europe change quite fundamentally, the more aggressive and provocative behavior by our eastern neighbor Russia has made it necessary for ... the NATO alliance to readjust.

2. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

   What we shouldn't do now is to inflame the situation by loud saber-rattling and shrill war cries, whoever believes that symbolic tank parades on the alliance's eastern border will bring more security is mistaken.

3. Jens Stoltenberg:

   NATO is going to release its new Strategic Concept laying out how the Alliance will sustain and strengthen transatlantic security in the face of President Putin's aggression as well as other emerging threats. And we'll look ahead to our continuing efforts to fortify our force posture on NATO's eastern flank.

4. Keith Ablow:

   If your job is adopting a persona who is not really who are you and maintaining it for many years inside and outside the ring to some extent, one could wonder whether you are also more vulnerable to using substances to try to maintain that identity, this could be an unhealthy alliance of certain psychological factors with the fallout from physical side effects that result when you try to maintain affliction.

5. Christopher Lee:

   I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything, i believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State and plan operations ourselves.

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