alinement

Other forms of alinement

plural

alinements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alinement

What does alinement mean?

alinement means "an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty".

How many syllables are in alinement?

alinement has 4 syllables: a-li-ne-ment. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for alinement?

Close synonyms include alliance, coalition, alignment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alinement a common word?

alinement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.