allies (root: ally)

Noun allies has 3 senses

• allies(n = noun.group) - the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945;
is a kind of alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition

• allies(n = noun.group) - in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers;
is a kind of alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition

• allies(n = noun.group) - an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy;
is a kind of alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition