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# A [[person#Noun|person]] who [[cooperate|co-operates]] with or [[help#Verb|helps]] another; an [[associate#Noun|associate]]; a [[friend#Noun|friend]].
# A [[person#Noun|person]] who [[cooperate|co-operates]] with or [[help#Verb|helps]] another; an [[associate#Noun|associate]]; a [[friend#Noun|friend]].
#* {{RQ:Allestree Gentlemans Calling|page=83|passage=[N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an '''ally''', as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.}}
#* {{RQ:Irving Bracebridge Hall|volume=II|chapter=The Culprit|page=197|passage={{...}} Christy and his trusty '''ally''', the one armed with a fowling piece, the other with an ancient blunderbuss, turned out as sentries to keep watch over this donjon keep.}}
#* {{RQ:Joyce Portrait|chapter=II|page=68|passage=He became the '''ally''' of a boy named Aubrey Mills and founded with him a gang of adventurers in the avenue.}}
## A person who, or [[organization]] which, [[support#Verb|supports]] a [[demographic#Adjective|demographic]] [[group#Noun|group]] [[subject#Adjective|subject]] to [[discrimination]] and/or [[misrepresentation]] but is not a [[member#Noun|member]] of the group; specifically {{lb|en|LGBT}}, a person who is not a member of the [[LGBT+]] [[community]] but is [[supportive]] of it.
## A person who, or [[organization]] which, [[support#Verb|supports]] a [[demographic#Adjective|demographic]] [[group#Noun|group]] [[subject#Adjective|subject]] to [[discrimination]] and/or [[misrepresentation]] but is not a [[member#Noun|member]] of the group; specifically {{lb|en|LGBT}}, a person who is not a member of the [[LGBT+]] [[community]] but is [[supportive]] of it.
##: {{ux|en|I’m glad you want to be a better '''ally''' to the disabled.}}
##: {{ux|en|I’m glad you want to be a better '''ally''' to the disabled.}}
# A person, group, [[state#Noun|state]], etc., which is [[associate#Verb|associated]] or [[unite#Verb|united]] by [[treaty#Noun|treaty]] with another for a [[common#Adjective|common]] (especially [[military#Adjective|military]] or [[political#Adjective|political]]) [[purpose#Noun|purpose]]; a [[confederate#Noun|confederate]].
# A person, group, [[state#Noun|state]], etc., which is [[associate#Verb|associated]] or [[unite#Verb|united]] by [[treaty#Noun|treaty]] with another for a [[common#Adjective|common]] (especially [[military#Adjective|military]] or [[political#Adjective|political]]) [[purpose#Noun|purpose]]; a [[confederate#Noun|confederate]].
#: {{ux|en|The two countries were '''allies''' in World War I.}}
#: {{ux|en|The two countries were '''allies''' in World War I.}}
#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|chapter=14|passage=the English soldiers and their French '''allies'''}}
#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=III|chapter=XIV|page=427|passage=During some days indeed there was great reason to fear that the enemy would be entertained with a bloody fight between the English soldiers and their French '''allies'''.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Danette Chavez|title=Campaigns are Waged On and Off the ''[[w:Game of Thrones|Game Of Thrones]]'' Battlefield (Newbies)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128115426/https://tv.avclub.com/campaigns-are-waged-on-and-off-the-game-of-thrones-batt-1834536681|archivedate=28 January 2021|work={{w|The A.V. Club}}|date=5 May 2019|passage=Even before she begs Jon to keep his identity a secret, she reeks of desperation; in order to gain an '''ally''' that isn’t already in her entourage, she sets Gendry Baratheon né Rivers up in Storm’s End.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Danette Chavez|title=Campaigns are Waged On and Off the ''[[w:Game of Thrones|Game Of Thrones]]'' Battlefield (Newbies)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128115426/https://tv.avclub.com/campaigns-are-waged-on-and-off-the-game-of-thrones-batt-1834536681|archivedate=28 January 2021|work={{w|The A.V. Club}}|date=5 May 2019|passage=Even before she begs Jon to keep his identity a secret, she reeks of desperation; in order to gain an '''ally''' that isn’t already in her entourage, she sets Gendry Baratheon né Rivers up in Storm’s End.}}
# Something [[regard#Verb|regarded]] as [[connected#Adjective|connected]] with or [[related#Adjective|related]] to another thing by [[similarity]] in [[feature#Noun|features]] or [[nature#Noun|nature]].
# Something [[regard#Verb|regarded]] as [[connected#Adjective|connected]] with or [[related#Adjective|related]] to another thing by [[similarity]] in [[feature#Noun|features]] or [[nature#Noun|nature]].
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##: {{ux|en|The order of Gruiformes includes cranes and their '''allies'''.}}
##: {{ux|en|The order of Gruiformes includes cranes and their '''allies'''.}}
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} A person, group, [[concept]], etc., which is [[associated#Adjective|associated]] with another as a [[helper]]; an [[auxiliary#Noun|auxiliary]]; a [[supporter]].
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} A person, group, [[concept]], etc., which is [[associated#Adjective|associated]] with another as a [[helper]]; an [[auxiliary#Noun|auxiliary]]; a [[supporter]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Henry Thomas Buckle|authorlink=Henry Thomas Buckle|chapter=An Examination of the Scotch Intellect during the Eighteenth Century|title=History of Civilization in England|location=London|publisher=Parker, Son, and Bourn,{{nb...|West Strand.}}|year=1861|volume=II|page=596|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIzP9hq6UeMC&pg=PA596|oclc=606071742|passage=[S]cience, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its '''ally'''.}}
#* '''1857''', {{w|Henry Thomas Buckle}}, ''History of Civilization in England'':
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# {{lb|en|historical|or|obsolete}} A [[kinsman]] or [[kinswoman]]; a [[relative#Noun|relative]].
#*: Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its '''ally'''.
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#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Q1-2|act=III|scene=i|page=43|passage=This Gentleman the Princes neere '''Alie'''. / My very frend hath tane this mortall vvound / In my behalfe, {{...}}}}
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# {{lb|en|historical|or|obsolete}} A [[relative#Noun|relative]]; a [[kinsman]] or [[kinswoman]].
#* {{RQ:Twain American Claimant|chapter=XXV|page=269|passage=Finally there was a quiet wedding at the Towers, {{...}} The Sellerses were to go to England with their new '''allies''' for a brief visit, but when it was time to take the train from Washington, the colonel was missing.}}
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#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet|act=III|scene=i|passage=This gentleman, the prince's near '''ally''' / My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt / In my behalf}}


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Revision as of 16:22, 14 June 2022

See also: Ally and -ally

English

WOTD – 14 June 2022

Etymology 1

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],[1] 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,[2] 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.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
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  • Rhymes: (one pronunciation) -aɪ
  • Hyphenation: al‧ly

Verb

ally (third-person singular simple present allies, present participle allying, simple past and past participle allied)

  1. (transitive)
    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. (reflexive) To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
      • 1577, Peter de la Place [i.e. Pierre de la Place], “Of the Excellencie of a Christian Man, and the Way to Knowe Him”, in L[aurence] Tomson, transl., A Treatise of the Excellencie of a Christian Man, and Howe He may be Knowen. […], London: […] Christopher Barkar, […], →OCLC:
        To be ſhort, hauing thus ingrafted them into the body of his [God's] Sonne, he ioyneth and allieth him ſelfe to them, he maketh him ſelfe one with them, maketh them his children and heyres, partakers of his immortalitie and glorie, and all this he worketh by the inward vertue of his holy Ghost, […]
      • 1742, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXIX”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; and sold by C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 172:
        [W]e have ſo many of our firſt Titled Families vvho have ally'd themſelves to Trade, (vvhoſe Inducements vvere Money only) that it ceaſes to be either a VVonder as to the Fact, or a Diſgrace to the Honour.
      • 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 626:
        [George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax] had seen that the settlement of the government could be effected on Whig principles only, and who had therefore, for the time, allied himself closely with the Whigs.
      • 1861, [T. John Vickers], “The Book of Counsels”, in The New Koran of the Pacifican Friendhood: or Text-book of Turkish Reformers, in the Teaching and Example of Their Esteemed Master Jaido Morata, London: George Mainwaring, […], →OCLC, chapter XXIX, verses 24–25, page 375, column 1:
        A wise damsel walketh up and down discreetly in the world, minding her affairs: she regardeth not the pleading of vain lovers, but taketh counsel with her friends and allieth herself at last to one of true worth. Then she giveth up her whole heart to the service of her husband, and receiveth from him again his love and strong help and the flower of his estate beyond calcuation or desire.
  2. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
    Synonym: make common cause
    • 1673, Gilbert Burnet, “The First Conference”, in A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland. […], Glasgow: Robert Sanders, […], →OCLC, page 62:
      [A]ftervvards he [Constantine the Great] allied vvith Licinius, and gave him his Siſter in marriage, and acknovvledged him his Colleague in the Empire.
    • 1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VIII, in Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book III (From the Battle of Marathon to the Battles of Platæa and Mycale, B.C. 490 – B.C. 479), page 195:
      Whatever injuries […] the Athenians have done me I forgive. […] If they will ally with me, rebuild the temples I have burnt.
Usage notes

The word is generally used in the passive form or reflexively.

Conjugation
Conjugation of ally
infinitive (to) ally
present tense past tense
1st-person singular ally allied
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular allies
plural ally
subjunctive ally allied
imperative ally —
participles allying allied
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English allie, alie [and other forms],[3] probably partly:

Noun

ally (plural allies)

  1. A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
    • 1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] V. Of the Second Advantage, Wealth.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 83:
      [N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.
    • 1822 May 21, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Culprit”, in Bracebridge Hall, or The Humourists. A Medley. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 197:
      […] Christy and his trusty ally, the one armed with a fowling piece, the other with an ancient blunderbuss, turned out as sentries to keep watch over this donjon keep.
    • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 68:
      He became the ally of a boy named Aubrey Mills and founded with him a gang of adventurers in the avenue.
    1. A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBTQ), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
      I’m glad you want to be a better ally to the disabled.
  2. A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
    The two countries were allies in World War I.
  3. Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
    1. (taxonomy) An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.
      The order of Gruiformes includes cranes and their allies.
  4. (figuratively) A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
    • 1861, Henry Thomas Buckle, “An Examination of the Scotch Intellect during the Eighteenth Century”, in History of Civilization in England, volume II, London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, […], →OCLC, page 596:
      [S]cience, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
  5. (historical or obsolete) A kinsman or kinswoman; a relative.
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun

Template:en-plural noun (obsolete)

  1. One's relatives; kin, kindred, relations; also, relationship through descent or marriage; kinship.
  2. 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.

Etymology 3

See alley.[5]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæli/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧ly

Noun

ally (plural allies)

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

References

  1. ^ “allīen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “ally, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2022; “ally1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “allīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ^ “ally, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2022; “ally1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  5. ^ “ally2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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