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ALLIES
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("allies" is a kind of...):
alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Allies" is a kind of...):
alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Allies" is a kind of...):
alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb ally
Context examples:
On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford's wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“We have been allies too long to quarrel now at the very hour of victory,” he said.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once our allies broke under the pressure, and had it not been for the execution done by our rifles they would certainly have taken to their heels.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For two months Alleyne had wavered betwixt death and life, with a broken rib and a shattered head; yet youth and strength and a cleanly life were all upon his side, and he awoke from his long delirium to find that the war was over, that the Spaniards and their allies had been crushed at Navaretta, and that the prince had himself heard the tale of his ride for succor and had come in person to his bedside to touch his shoulder with his sword and to insure that so brave and true a man should die, if he could not live, within the order of chivalry.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We had returned across the plateau with our allies two days after the battle, and made our camp at the foot of their cliffs.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not until the night had fallen, and the fires of our savage allies glowed red in the shadows, that our two men of science could be dragged away from the fascinations of that primeval lake.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
