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allied is an adjective meaning "related by common characteristics or ancestry". It carries 5 recorded senses.
of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War II
“an Allied victory”
“the Allied armies”
of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I
“an allied offensive”
“the Allied powers”
united in a confederacy or league
joined by treaty or agreement
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for allied come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.