• enPR: ăl'ī, IPA: /ˈæl.aɪ/ (noun)
• enPR: əlī', IPA: /əˈlaɪ/ (verb)

ally

1. (transitive) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy
   • Alexander Pope:

     O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied.

2. (transitive) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
   • Edmund Spenser:

     These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied.

   • Alexander Pope:

     The virtue nearest to our vice allied.

• make common cause

• French: allier
• Italian: allenza
• Portuguese: aliar
• Spanish: aliarse, unirse en

• French: allier
• Portuguese: aliar

ally (plural allies)

1. One united to another by treaty or league; — usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

2. Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.

   • Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.

3. Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.
4. (taxonomy) A closely related species, usually within the same family.

   Gruiformes — cranes and allies

5. (specifically) C en A person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
6. (obsolete) A relative; a kinsman.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act III, Scene 1:

     This gentleman, the prince's near ally / My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt / In my behalf

• alliance

• French: allié
• German: Alliierter, Alliierte, Verbündeter, Verbündete
• Italian: alleato
• Portuguese: aliado
• Russian: сою́зник
• Spanish: aliado

• Portuguese: aliado
• Russian: сою́зник

• IPA: /ˈæli/

ally (plural allies)

1. Alternative form of alley (a glass marble or taw)

1. A female given name
2. A male given name

   Ally Love

   • 1880, Alfred Tennyson, To Alfred Tennyson, My Grandson:

     Golden-hair'd Ally whose name is one with mine,

     Crazy with laughter and babble and earth's new wine