ally

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
2. Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
3. To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
4. Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.

Noun

1. A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
2. A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
3. A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
4. Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
5. Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
6. A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
7. (obsolete) A kinsman or kinswoman; a relative.

Noun

1. (obsolete) One's relatives; kin, kindred, relations; also, relationship through descent or marriage; kinship.
2. (obsolete) People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.

Noun

Alternative spelling of alley (“a glass marble or taw”)

Concepts

allié

allier

alliée

ami

se liguer

s’unir

unir

collecter

amitié

camarade

copain

allions

coallié

partisan

Coupé comme

al‧ly

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈælaɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English allien, alien (“to form an alliance, associate, join; to become an ally; to introduce (someone) as an ally; to marry; to become related (to someone); to attack, engage in combat; to combine; (cooking) to combine ingredients, especially to bind them together”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allier [and other forms], and Old French alier (“to join together, unite; to alloy (metals); (cooking) to combine ingredients”) (modern French allier), from Latin alligāre, the present active infinitive of alligō, adligō (“to bind around, to, or up (something), bandage, fasten, fetter, tie; to hold fast; to detain, hinder”), from al-, ad- (intensifying prefix) + ligō (“to bind, tie; to bandage, wrap around; to unite”) (from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind, tie”)). Doublet of allay, alligate, alloy, and ligament.