allegianceal‧le‧giance /əˈliːdʒəns/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] 
You owe allegiance (=have a duty to give allegiance) to your king.swear/pledge allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. an oath of allegianceswitch/transfer allegiance (=start to support a different person, group etc) The people here have strong political allegiances.
WORD ORIGINallegiance
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French ligeance, from lige ‘person you owe loyal service to’, from Late Latin laetus ‘serf’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Opposition leaders have proclaimed their allegiance to the new government.
- Their allegiance is still to the Queen.
- A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.
- Female cuckoos bear more allegiance to a particular host, be it redstart or warbler, than do their males.
- It was difficult on everybody and there was an allegiance to Jef, but Steve had his own compelling aura.
- New ruling administrators owed allegiance to the state.
- Offices may have been relocated, but not allegiances.
- These might include songs, chants, or activities that express allegiance to political leaders or symbols.
Longman Language Activatorloyal behaviour
loyal behaviour: · I would like to thank you all for your loyalty.loyalty to: · He acted out of loyalty to his friends.your loyalty lies with somebody (=you should show loyalty to them): · Your loyalty lies first and foremost with your family.unswerving loyalty (=unchanging loyalty): · Dalton showed unswerving loyalty to his employer throughout the trial.divided loyalties (=feelings of loyalty to two different groups): · The war has created divided loyalties in many families, setting brother against brother and father against son.
loyalty to someone you have strong feelings of admiration, respect etc for: devotion to: · Her life was one of hard work and devotion to her family.unfailing/unswerving devotion (=unchanging devotion): · She cared for her stepmother with unfailing devotion throughout her long illness.
formal loyalty to a leader, organization, or country, especially when someone says publicly that they will be loyal: · Their allegiance is still to the Queen.proclaim/pledge your allegiance to: · Opposition leaders have proclaimed their allegiance to the new government.
loyalty between different social or political groups or between all the people in a group, because they all have a shared purpose and need to work together to succeed: show/express solidarity: · Women all over the world have been demonstrating to show their solidarity.solidarity among: · Solidarity among black people in South Africa is essential if progress is to be made.solidarity with: · Other health professionals were quick to express their solidarity with nurses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY You owe allegiance (=have a duty to give allegiance) to your king. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. The people here have strong political allegiances.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Presidents must swear allegiance to the US constitution.
You owe allegiance (=have a duty to give allegiance) to your king. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. (=start to support a different person, group etc)
The people here have strong political allegiances. (=being faithful to the king)· They were fighting out of loyalty to their king.
· They swore an oath of allegiance to the crown.
Presidents must swear allegiance to the US constitution. (=start supporting someone else)· Most of his supporters had switched their allegiance to his rival.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· More important, the relation between class location and political allegiance is not linear and unproblematical.· The majority of the electorate are only marginally politically conscious, and the personalisation of political issues and allegiances reflect this marginality.· In the United States it transcends traditional political and cultural allegiances.· This intervention reconstituted the boundaries of political allegiance.· Reading the Hansard transcriptions without knowing the political allegiance of each speaker, it would be hard to tell.· These contrasting values and political allegiances demonstrate the lack of any necessary correspondence between elite methodology, state theory and political values.· The place of theft of the car is often a pointer to the political allegiance of the bombers.· A three percent swing equates to one million electors changing their political allegiance.
VERB· The amenable supporter who changes his allegiance with each new king.· Only 11 senators changed party allegiance while in office in this century.· My telephone has not stopped ringing with colleagues accusing me of changing my allegiance and forsaking my birthright.· A three percent swing equates to one million electors changing their political allegiance.· In the moments she had left, the room had changed its allegiance and there was nothing safe here any more.
· Loyalty to the person of the monarch gave way to allegiance to the abstraction of the state.· Around my area, 50,000 men follow freemasonry and each has sworn to give his utmost allegiance to the Craft. 4.· Men, it is often said, give their allegiance not to the government of the day but to the state.
· The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought.· A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.· Should they owe allegiance and obedience to him?· We can maintain with relative certainty that at least some of the mummies owed obedience if not allegiance to the Xiongnu shanyu.· We owe no more allegiance, Peter.· The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.· Knights owe their allegiance directly to their lord: the Elector Count of their province.· But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
· On the following day he apologized for his actions and pledged his allegiance to the government.· With his hand on his heart and tears spilling down his cheeks, Charles Prince pledged his allegiance to the flag.· When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.· When my friends or classmates pledged allegiance to the flag, I remained seated and silent.· Only those who pledged allegiance to the musicians' brilliance, mesmerized by daredevil improvisations, were welcome.
· In his teens, he learned to drink and swore an allegiance to the pint.· All those present swore allegiance to Aenarion.· Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee.· Saving only the fealty which he owed to his father he swore allegiance to Philip against all men.· They have sworn allegiance to the Warbutt now.
· Timman unleashed some tactics and the watching grandmasters switched their allegiance.· Behind the scenes, news producers and writers also switched allegiances and jobs.· The reasons they switched their allegiance included anxiety about globalisation, a rejection of political corruption and fear of immigration.· I know that yet again there will be a furore about players switching their allegiance as and when they see fit.· I also noticed how Corin and Alleyn, once we had reached Royston, switched their allegiance to him.
· If Henry failed to abide by these terms his barons were to transfer their allegiance to Philip and Richard.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
loyalty to a leader, country, belief etcallegiance to- A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.
- The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought.
- The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
- If Henry failed to abide by these terms his barons were to transfer their allegiance to Philip and Richard.
You owe allegiance (=have a duty to give allegiance) to your king.swear/pledge allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. an oath of allegianceswitch/transfer allegiance (=start to support a different person, group etc) The people here have strong political allegiances.