Is encouraging someone to kill themselves a crime? Massachusettsâ highest court will decide in texting case. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Thursday in the case of Michelle Carter, a teenager accused of involuntary manslaughter in her boyfriend's death by suicide.
The word allies is the plural of ally, which refers to countries in friendly military association with each other -- like pals. It is opposite of an enemy. In the WW2 sense, the Allies were all the countries opposed to the Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan).
plural noun. ( 1 in World War I) the powers of the Triple Entente (France, Russia, and Britain) together with the nations allied with them. ( 2 in World War II) the countries that fought against the Axis. 3  The main Allied powers were Britain and the Commonwealth countries, the US, the Soviet Union, France, China, and Poland.