'Coalition' definitions:
Definition of 'coalition'
(from WordNet)
noun
An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement] [ant: nonalignment, nonalinement]
noun
The state of being combined into one body [syn: coalition, fusion]
noun
The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]
Definition of 'Coalition'
From: GCIDE
- Coalition \Co`a*li"tion\, n. [LL. coalitio: cf. F. coalition. See Coalesce.]
- 1. The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests. [1913 Webster]
- A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg. --J. Randolph. [1913 Webster]
- The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. --Macaulay.
- Syn: Alliance; confederation; confederacy; league; combination; conjunction; conspiracy; union. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'coalition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- Anschluss,
- anschluss,
- assemblage,
- assimilation,
- association,
- axis,
- band,
- blend,
- blending,
- bloc,
- body,
- Bund,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- colleagueship,
- college,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- common market,
- communist front,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- consumer cooperative,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- corps,
- council,
- credit union,
- customs union,
- economic community,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- faction,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- free trade area,
- freemasonry,
- front,
- fusion,
- gang,
- grass-roots movement,
- ground swell,
- group,
- grouping,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- junction,
- junta,
- league,
- machine,
- marriage,
- meld,
- melding,
- mergence,
- merger,
- merging,
- mob,
- movement,
- package,
- package deal,
- partnership,
- party,
- political front,
- political machine,
- popular front,
- ring,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- unification,
- union,
- wedding