ally
noun B2- A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
- A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBTQ), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it. · I’m glad you want to be a better ally to the disabled.
- A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate. · The two countries were allies in World War I.
- Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
- An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family. · The order of Gruiformes includes cranes and their allies.
- A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
Plural allies
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“Never more will I make an ally of Kaa,” and he shook himself all over.
Many traces we found of him in the bog-girt island where he had hid his savage ally.
It was during these fruitless quests that he, or rather his ally, was seen by peasants, and that the legend of the demon dog received a new confirmation.
She was thinking of the despair of Maximilian, when he should be informed that Madame de Saint-Méran, instead of being an ally, was unconsciously acting as his enemy.
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