Dictionary

allegiance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/
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Etymology

From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
   • 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:
   • With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her destiny;... 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 83:

Forms

Antonyms

treason · disloyalty

Deriveds

counterallegiance · oath of allegiance · pledge of allegiance

Synonyms

fidelity · sympathy · fealty · loyalty · adherence · devotion

Translations (67)

pt adesão (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · it lealtà (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · la obsequium (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · es pleitesía (disused) (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · enm legiaunce (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ro fidelitate (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nb truskap (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · de Gefolgschaft (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fi kuuliaisuus (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pt fidelidade (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pl lojalność (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ko 충성 (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · de Treuherzigkeit (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fa وفاداری (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · mi piripono (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fr fidélité (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nb troskap (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · cmn 忠誠 /忠诚 (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ru ве́рность (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ga dílseacht (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · da troskap (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · eo fideleco (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ro loialitate (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · sh lojalnost (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pl posłuszeństwo (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pl wierność (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fa تعهد (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · bg преданост (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · sv trohet (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · sh odanost (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · it fedeltà (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pt lealdade (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · sv lojalitet (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · es lealtad (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · de Treue (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fi uskollisuus (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ru пре́данность (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nl trouwhartigheid (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nl trouw (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · bg лоялност (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · es fidelidad (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pap fidelidat (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nl aanhang (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · de Loyalität (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fr allégeance (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fo trúskapur (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · pt filiação (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · cs oddanost (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nl getrouwheid (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ca lleialtat (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ja 忠誠 (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · la dēvōtiō (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nl loyaliteit (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · sl zvestoba (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · la fidēs (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · de Gefolgschaftstreue (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · sh predanost (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · la fidēlitās (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · fr loyauté (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · enm alegiaunce (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ar اِنْتِمَاء (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · he נֶאֱמָנוּת (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · la allegiantia (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ca fidelitat (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · ro credință (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · bg вярност (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler) · nn truskap (loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler)