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Plural of allegiance

regular plural

The plural of allegiance is allegiances.

Forms of allegiance

Singularallegiance /əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/
Pluralallegiances
Countablecountable and uncountable

Allegiances in a sentence

  • 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
  • He switched allegiances to an alternate, frequency-based approach he had also developed.2011, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and…. From the entry central limit theorem
  • In adolescence we have a period of 'closed-earedness', when we pick our allegiances and music is very important.2018 March 25, James Gillespie, quoting Alexandra Lamont, “Teenage picks: our musical taste set by 14”, in The Times, archived from the…. From the entry closed-earedness

Meaning of allegiance

  1. noun Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.

Full definition of allegiance

Questions about the plural of allegiance

What is the plural of allegiance?
The plural of allegiance is allegiances.
Is allegiance countable?
Allegiance is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: allegiance (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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