Alliance vs Brotherhood - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state of being allied.
(countable) The act of allying or uniting.
(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
* C. J. Smith
* Mansel
(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
(obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
The state of being brothers or a brother.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
Alliance is a related term of brotherhood.
As nouns the difference between alliance and brotherhood
is that alliance is (uncountable) the state of being allied while brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother.As a verb alliance
is (obsolete) to connect or unite by alliance; to ally.alliance
English
(alliance)Alternative forms
* alliaunceNoun
- matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries
- the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
- the alliance between logic and metaphysics
- (Udall)
Synonyms
* (union by relationship in qualities) connection, affinity, union * (act of allying) union * (persons or parties allied) coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)Verb
(allianc)External links
* *Anagrams
* * ----brotherhood
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .
