allegiance
Syllables: al·le·giance/əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/
allegiance noun: loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
Noun
allegiance (countable and uncountable, plural allegiances)
- Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
- With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 83
- It was always going to be a hot occasion for Declan Rice and Jack Grealish, the one-time Ireland internationals who subsequently switched their allegiances.2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, in The Guardian
- Antonyms:
- treason, disloyalty
allegiance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
allegiance in Hindi
- allegiance, devotion, fidelity
- निष्ठा niṣṭhā
allegiance in Tamil
- கடப்பாடு, பற்றிணைப்பு, பற்றிணைவு, பற்றுறுதி
allegiance in Urdu
- تابعداری
allegiance in Bengali
- আনুগত্য
More languagesFewer languages
- allegiance in Malayalam
- കൂറ്, ഭക്തിബന്ധം, രാജഭക്തി, സ്വാമിഭക്തി
- allegiance in Kannada
- ಮುಡಿಪು, ನಂಬಿಕೆ, ನಿಷ್ಠೆ, ಸ್ವಾಮಿಭಕ್ತಿ
- allegiance in Arabic
- اِنْتِمَاء intimāʔ
- allegiance in Persian
- تعهد ta'ahhod, وفاداری vafâdâri
Examples of allegiance in a sentence
- You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
- We forswear allegiance and support for the Economic Freedom Fighters.
- Please stand in line for the pledge of allegiance.
Synonyms of allegiance
Antonyms
Forms of allegiance
| plural | allegiances |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | allegiaunce |
Origin of allegiance
From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.
Words formed from allegiance
Phrases with allegiance
Questions about allegiance
- What does allegiance mean?
- Allegiance means loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
- What is allegiance in Hindi?
- Allegiance in Hindi is निष्ठा (niṣṭhā). See Allegiance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is allegiance?
- Allegiance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce allegiance?
- Allegiance is pronounced /əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/.
- What is the plural of allegiance?
- The plural of allegiance is allegiances.
Words near allegiance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: allegiance (page history and authors); निष्ठा (Hindi) (page history and authors); allegiance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allegiance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allegiance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allegiance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allegiance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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