Ally

Verb

 * 1)  To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy
 * 2)  To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

Noun

 * 1) One united to another by treaty or league; &mdash; usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
 * 2) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
 * 3) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.

Adjectives for Ally
ancient; formidable; constant; treacherous; invaluable; powerful; brilliant;  faithful; indispensable; perfidious; distrustful; illustrious ; staunch; natural; sturdy; vigorous; sympathetic; unmanageable; lifelong.

Verbs for Ally
abuse; alienate; combine with; consult; defend;  forsake;  outrage; seek; take for; unite with, welcome; collapses; concurs; s connive; contributes; cools down; forfeits.

Adverbs for Ally
closely; inseparably; exclusively; treacherously; invaluably; faithfully; indispensably; perfidiously; staunchly; naturally; sturdily; sympathetically;  vigorously.

Thesaurus
accessory; accomplice; act in concert; act together; adjunct; affiliate; alter ego; amalgamate; analogon; analogue; apply; archduchy; archdukedom; associate; band; band together; be in cahoots; be in league; bedfellow; bind; body politic; bracket; brother; brother-in-arms; buffer state; bunch; bunch up; cabal; captive nation; cement a union; centralize; chieftaincy; chieftainry; city-state; close copy; close match; club; club together; coact; coadjutor; coalesce; cognate; cohort; collaborate; collaborator; colleague; collude; colony; combine; come together; commonweal; commonwealth; companion; compatriot; compeer; complement; comrade; concert; concord; concur; confederate; confrere; congenator; congener; connect; consociate; consolidate; consort; conspire; cooperate; coordinate; correlate; correlative; correspondent; counterpart; country; county; couple; crony; do business with; domain; dominion; draw a parallel; duchy; dukedom; earldom; empery; empire; equate; equivalent; federalize; federate; fellow; fellow member; free city; friend; fuse; gang; gang up; get heads together; get together; go in partners; go in partnership; go partners; grand duchy; hang together; harmonize; hold together; hook up; hook up with; identify; image; interrelate; join; join forces; join fortunes with; join in; join together; join up; join up with; join with; keep together; kindred spirit; kingdom; land; league; league together; like; likeness; link; make common cause; mandant; mandate; mandated territory; mandatee; mandatory; marry; mate; merge; nation; nationality; near duplicate; obverse; organize; pair; pair off; parallel; parallelize; partner; pendant; picture; play ball; polis; polity; possession; power; principality; principate; protectorate; province; pull together; puppet government; puppet regime; put heads together; realm; reciprocal; reciprocate; relate; relativize; republic; satellite; second self; seneschalty; settlement; side; similitude; simulacrum; sister; soul mate; sovereign nation; stand together; stand up with; state; such; suchlike; sultanate; superpower; tally; team up; team up with; team with; territory; the like of; the likes of; throw in together; throw in with; tie; tie in; tie in with; tie up; tie up with; toparchia; toparchy; twin; unionize; unite; unite efforts; unite with; wed; work together

Etymology
From alien,  alier (French allier), from  alligare:, from ad: + ligare:. Compare alligate, allay, alloy and ligament.

Pronunciation

 * Rhymes: -aɪ
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"{laI/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"{laI/}}

Synonyms

 * make common cause