Alliance

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and  state; an alliance between France and England.
 * 2)  Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
 * 3)  A treaty between nations for their mutual advantage

Adjectives for Alliance
suspicions; entangling; defensive; amazing; long-desired; dubious;  firm; treacherous; political; unholy; unspeakable; tribal; intimate; loose; epoch-making;  bizarre; dissolved; prosperous; unhappy; matrimonial; iniquitous;  extraneous;  staunch;  fitting; corrupt; unsurpassed;  nuptial; accursed; formidable.

Verbs for Alliance
achieve; acquire; adhere to; alter; combine in;  conclude;  connect  with; contract; contribute to; defend; deny; disapprove of; dissolve; enhance; entangle in s; form; found; knit; maintain; preserve; revise; revoke;  sanction;  seek;  solidify; stipulate; terminate; unite in; augments;concludes; crumbles; discriminates against; empowers; enables; enriches; entangles; fortifies; insures; knits; maintains; preserves; promises; reanimates; reinforces; rejuvenates; revives; solidifies; stiffens; stipulates; sustains.

Synonyms for Alliance
connection, affinity, union, confederacy, confederation, league, coalition, fusion, federation, coalition, partnership, compact.

Antonyms for Alliance
hostility, enmity, discord, separation, secession, disunion, war.

Related terms

 * ally
 * league

Thesaurus
partnership; paternity; patrilineage; patriliny; patrisib; patrocliny; political machine; propinquity; proximity; rapport; relatedness; relation; relations; relationship; resemblance; ring; sacrament of matrimony; sameness; saprophytism; semblance; sibship; similarity; simile; similitude; simulation; simultaneity; sisterhood; sistership; society; sodality; solidification; sorority; spousehood; symbiosis; sympathy; synchronism; syncretism; syndication; syneresis; synergy; synthesis; tie; tie-in; tie-up; ties of blood; treaty; unification; union; united action; unity; wedded bliss; wedded state; weddedness; wedding; wedding knot; wedlock; wifehood; Anschluss; Bund; NATO; Rochdale cooperative; SEATO; a world-without-end bargain; accompaniment; accord; accordance; addition; adjunct; affairs; affiliation; affinity; agglomeration; aggregation; agnation; agreement; alignment; alikeness; amalgamation; analogy; ancestry; anschluss; aping; approach; approximation; assemblage; assimilation; association; axis; band; bed; blend; blending; bloc; blood; blood relationship; body; bond; bond of matrimony; bridebed; brotherhood; brothership; cabal; cahoots; capitulation; cartel; centralization; closeness; club; co-working; coaction; coadunation; coalescence; coalition; cognation; cohabitation; coincidence; collaboration; colleagueship; collectivity; college; collegialism; collegiality; collusion; combination; combine; combined effort; combo; common ancestry; common descent; common market; community; comparability; comparison; composition; comradeship; concert; concerted action; concomitance; concord; concordance; concordat; concourse; concurrence; confederacy; confederation; confluence; conformity; confraternity; congeries; conglomeration; conjugal bond; conjugal knot; conjugation; conjunction; connectedness; connection; consanguinity; consilience; consolidation; conspiracy; consumer cooperative; contiguity; contrariety; convention; cooperation; cooperative; cooperative society; copartnership; copartnery; copying; corps; correspondence; council; cousinhood; cousinship; coverture; credit union; customs union; dealings; deduction; disjunction; economic community; ecumenism; embodiment; enation; encompassment; enosis; entente; entente cordiale; fatherhood; federalization; federation; fellowship; filiation; fraternalism; fraternity; fraternization; free trade area; freemasonry; fusion; gang; group; grouping; holy matrimony; holy wedlock; homology; hookup; husbandhood; identity; ill-assorted marriage; imitation; inclusion; incorporation; integration; intercourse; intermarriage; international agreement; interracial marriage; intimacy; junction; junta; kindred; kinship; league; liaison; likeness; likening; link; linkage; linking; machine; marriage; marriage bed; marriage sacrament; match; maternity; matrilineage; matriliny; matrimonial union; matrimony; matrisib; matrocliny; meld; melding; merger; mesalliance; metaphor; mimicking; misalliance; miscegenation; mixed marriage; mob; motherhood; mutual attraction; mutual-defense treaty; nearness; nonaggression pact; nuptial bond; order; package; package deal; pact; paction; parallelism; parasitism; parity;

Etymology
From alliance (French: alliance).