📚 noun • entry_id 8650
ally
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aliada • aliado
A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
During some days indeed there was great reason to fear that the enemy would be entertained with a bloody fight between the English soldiers and their French allies.
The two countries were allies in World War I.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alianzar • aliar • unir
To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
She died; and her place was supplied by a German princess nearly allied to the Imperial House.
alianzar • aliar
Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
alianzarse • aliarse • coaligarse • coligarse
To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
And do we upbraid thee [rain], in our heartless stupidity, because, rather than withhold thy life-giving dispensations, thou allyest thy gentle nature with thy opposites, and comes…
[George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax] had seen that the settlement of the government could be effected on Whig principles only, and who had therefore, for the time, allied himse…
alianzarse • aliarse
Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
Whatever injuries […] the Athenians have done me I forgive. […] If they will ally with me, rebuild the temples I have burnt.