Noun coalition has 3 senses
  1. alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement - an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
    --1 is a kind of organization, organisation
    --1 has members: ally
    --1 has particulars:
     combination; allies; bloc, axis; Allies; Central Powers; Allies; Axis; entente, entente cordiale; popular front; world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization; Northern Alliance, United Front
  2. coalition, fusion - the state of being combined into one body
    --2 is a kind of union, unification
    --2 has particulars: alliance, confederation; federalization, federalisation
    Derived form: verb coalesce1
  3. coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination - the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
    --3 is a kind of union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure
    Derived forms: verb coalesce1, verb coalesce2