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nounan alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy
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nounin 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
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nounthe 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
Definition that contains allies
- marathon a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians
- allied of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War II
- allied of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I
- dulles United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959)
- minden a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French
- ypres battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
- iroquois any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
- anzio a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II
- tracheophyta in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants
- little club moss any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella