All 4 Uses of
alliance
in
Funny in Farsi
- Together, my relatives form an alliance that represents a genuine and enduring love of family, one that sustains them through difficulties and gives them reasons to celebrate during good times.†
p. 103.2alliance = association formed to support common interests
- One Saturday morning during my junior year of high school, I showed up at the University of California at Irvine to compete in an impromptu speech contest sponsored by the Alliance Francaise, a French language school.†
p. 130.2
- The first prize was two months at the Alliance Francaise in Paris.†
p. 130.4
- I would pick up the receiver to find somebody from the Alliance Francaise with a piddling question or comment.†
p. 132.3 *
Definition:
an association formed to support common interests