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).
Meaning: 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. Classified under: Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects. Hypernyms (Allies is a kind of...):