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Alliance - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, friendship, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union, confederation, fraternization, interrelation, mutuality |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war, disunion |
| Main Entry: | affiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association with an organization |
| Synonyms: | alliance, bunch, cahoots*, clan, coalition, combination, conjunction, connection, crew, crowd, gang, incorporation, league, mob, outfit, partnership, relationship, ring, syndicate, union, amalgamation, banding together, confederation, hookup, joining, merging, tie-in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brotherhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union, comradeship |
| Antonyms: | sisterhood |
| Main Entry: | cahoots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
| Synonyms: | alliance, collusion, league, partnership |
| Main Entry: | coalition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allied group, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amalgam, bloc, combination, combine, compact, confederacy, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, faction, federation, fusion, integration, league, merger, party, ring, unification, union, amalgamation, anschluss, coadunation, confederation, melding, mergence, merging |
| Antonyms: | disassociation |
| Main Entry: | collaboration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cooperation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, collusion, combination, concert, participation, partnership, teamwork, fraternization, joint effort, working together |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
| Antonyms: | noncooperation |
| Main Entry: | compact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | alliance, arrangement, bargain, bond, contract, convention, covenant, deal, engagement, entente, indenture, pact, settlement, stipulation, transaction, treaty, understanding, concordat |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | companionship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship, accompaniment |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amity, camaraderie, company, conviviality, esprit de corps, rapport, society, togetherness, union, comradeship |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, strangeness |
| Main Entry: | confederacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coalition |
| Synonyms: | alliance, bond, compact, conspiracy, covenant, federation, government, league, organization, union, anschluss, confederation |
| Main Entry: | conjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, agreement, alliance, association, cahoots, coincidence, concurrence, juxtaposition, partnership, union, concomitance, congruency, conjointment, hookup, parallelism, tie-up* |
| Antonyms: | detachment, disconnection, division, separation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consolidation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination, fortification |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, coalition, compression, concentration, condensation, federation, fusion, incorporation, merger, reinforcement, solidification, unification, amalgamation, coadunation, melding, mergence, merging, strengthening |
| Antonyms: | division, parting, separation, dispersal, severance, weakening |
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
| Synonyms: | aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots*, coalition, collaboration, combination, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, conspiracy, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, participation, partnership, reciprocity, service, society, synergy, teamwork, union, unity, coaction, coadjuvancy, combined effort, confederation, confunction, doing business with, logrolling, partisanship, playing ball, responsiveness, symbiosis, synergism, teaming, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage, blockage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | federation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | partnership, organization |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bunch, coalition, combination, confederacy, crew, crowd, entente, family, gang, league, mob, outfit, pool, ring, syndicate, tribe, union, amalgamation, federacy, syndication |
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionship, company, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness, affability, companionability, comradeship, kindliness |
| Main Entry: | friendship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affection, affinity, agreement, alliance, amity, association, attachment, attraction, benevolence, closeness, coalition, company, concord, consideration, consonance, devotion, empathy, esteem, familiarity, favor, favoritism, fondness, friendliness, fusion, good will, harmony, intimacy, league, love, pact, partiality, rapport, regard, society, sodality, solidarity, understanding, acquaintanceship, amiability, amicability, comity, sociability |
| Antonyms: | enmity, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | marriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal joining of two people; a union |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, link, match, matrimony, merger, nuptials, sacrament, tie, wedding, wedlock, amalgamation, confederation, conjugality, connubiality, consortium, coupling, espousal, holy matrimony, mating, monogamy, pledging, spousal, tie that binds, wedded bliss, wedded state, wedding bells, wedding ceremony |
| Antonyms: | divorce |
| Main Entry: | matrimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being joined in marriage |
| Synonyms: | alliance, marriage, match, nuptials, shotgun wedding*, union, wedding, wedlock, bells, conjugality, connubiality, marital rites, wedding bells, wedding ceremony |
| Antonyms: | divorce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | merger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consolidation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, cahoots*, coalition, combination, fusion, incorporation, organization, pool, unification, union, amalgamation, coadunation, hookup, lineup, melding, mergence, merging, takeover, tie-in, tie-up |
| Antonyms: | division, parting, separation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | alliance, arrangement, bargain, bond, compact, concord, contract, convention, covenant, deal, league, paper, protocol, settlement, transaction, treaty, understanding, concordat, piece of paper |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection, family connection |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, consanguinity, kin, kindred, kinship, liaison, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity, kinsperson |
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