allies
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Al·ly n.; pl. Allies
1. A relative; a kinsman. [Obs.]
2. One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
The English soldiers and their French allies. --Macaulay.
3. Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally. --Buckle.
4. Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
Allies
n 1: 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
2: 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
3: an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common
enemy