Standard Lemma guide

coalition

name · noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /koʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
  • rhymes with -ɪʃən
  • CMU ARPABET: K OW2 AH0 L IH1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

Ellipsis of Coalition of the Liberal Party and National Party, the Liberal-National coalition.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

Ellipsis of Coalition of the Willing (“the coalition of nations operating under United States command against Iraq, in the U.S.-Iraq War (Gulf War II; "Iraq War") and its aftermath”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

Any of several series of nations allied against France in the Napoleonic Wars; in the War of the First Coalition, War of the Second Coalition, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

The Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party, emphasising its pro-coal policies.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, derogatory, mildly, slang

Topics: government, politics

Examples

  • 2017 Giles Parkinson, Big utilities about to pay price of saying no to coal and COALition Renew Economy, 11 September 2017. Accessed 3 June 2019.
  • 2019 David Llewellyn-Smith, Can Albo out-coal the COALition? MacroBusiness, 28 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, rare, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, concretion, conglutination

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

8

noun

Meaning 8

an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: alliance, alignment, alinement

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: organization, organisation

Narrower terms: combination, allies, bloc, axis, Central Powers, entente, entente cordiale, popular front, world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization, Northern Alliance, United Front

9

noun

Meaning 9

the state of being combined into one body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fusion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: union, unification

Narrower terms: alliance, confederation, federalization, federalisation

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin alēscō Latin coalēscō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin coalitiōder. Middle French coalitionbor. English coalition Borrowed from Middle French coalition, from Medieval Latin coalitiō, coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus. Compare coalescence.

Across languages

Translations

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: koalicion — group of organizations
  • Arabic: تَحَالُف (taḥāluf) — group of organizations
  • Arabic: اِئْتِلَاف (iʔtilāf) — group of organizations
  • Armenian: կոալիցիա (koalicʻia) — group of organizations
  • Armenian: դաշնակցություն (dašnakcʻutʻyun) — group of organizations
  • Asturian: coalición — group of organizations
  • Azerbaijani: koalisiya — group of organizations
  • Belarusian: каалі́цыя (kaalícyja) — group of organizations
  • Bengali: জোট (jōṭ) — group of organizations
  • Bulgarian: коали́ция (koalícija) — group of organizations
  • Burmese: ညွန့်ပေါင်း (nywan.paung:) — group of organizations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聯合 /联合 (liánhé) — group of organizations
  • Czech: koalice — group of organizations
  • Danish: koalition — group of organizations
  • Dutch: coalitie — group of organizations
  • Estonian: koalitsioon — group of organizations
  • Faroese: samgonga — group of organizations
  • Finnish: liittouma — group of organizations
  • Finnish: liittokunta — group of organizations
  • Finnish: koalitio — group of organizations
  • French: coalition — group of organizations
  • Galician: coalición — group of organizations
  • Georgian: კოალიცია (ḳoalicia) — group of organizations
  • German: Koalition — group of organizations
  • Greek: συνασπισμός (synaspismós) — group of organizations
  • Hebrew: קוֹאָלִיצְיָה (ko'alítsya) — group of organizations
  • Hindi: गठबंधन (gaṭhbandhan) — group of organizations
  • Hungarian: koalíció — group of organizations
  • Icelandic: bandalag — group of organizations
  • Indonesian: koalisi — group of organizations
  • Irish: comhghuaillíocht — group of organizations
  • Italian: blocco — group of organizations
  • Italian: coalizione — group of organizations
  • Japanese: 連立 (renritsu) — group of organizations
  • Kazakh: коалиция (koalisiä) — group of organizations
  • Khmer: សហពលកម្ម (saʼhaʼpŭəllĕəʼkam) — group of organizations
  • Korean: 제휴 (jehyu) — group of organizations
  • Korean: 연립 (yeollip) — group of organizations
  • Korean: 련립 (ryeollip) — group of organizations
  • Korean: 연합 (yeonhap) — group of organizations
  • Korean: 련합 (ryeonhap) — group of organizations
  • Kyrgyz: коалиция (koalitsiya) — group of organizations
  • Latin: societās — group of organizations
  • Latvian: koalīcija — group of organizations
  • Lithuanian: koalicija — group of organizations
  • Macedonian: коалиција (koalicija) — group of organizations
  • Malay: gabungan — group of organizations
  • Māori: haumi — group of organizations
  • Norwegian Bokmål: koalisjon — group of organizations
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: koalisjon — group of organizations
  • Occitan: coalicion — group of organizations
  • Pashto: ائتلاف (etelãf) — group of organizations
  • Persian: ائتلاف (e'telâf) — group of organizations
  • Polish: koalicja — group of organizations
  • Portuguese: coalizão — group of organizations
  • Portuguese: coligação — group of organizations
  • Romanian: coaliție — group of organizations
  • Russian: коали́ция (koalícija) — group of organizations
  • Scottish Gaelic: aonachadh — group of organizations
  • Scottish Gaelic: co-bhanntachd — group of organizations
  • Serbo-Croatian: коали́ција — group of organizations
  • Serbo-Croatian: koalícija — group of organizations
  • Slovak: koalícia — group of organizations
  • Slovene: koalicija — group of organizations
  • Spanish: coalición — group of organizations
  • Spanish: coligación — group of organizations
  • Spanish: coligamiento — group of organizations
  • Spanish: coligadura — group of organizations
  • Swedish: koalition — group of organizations
  • Tagalog: koalisyon — group of organizations
  • Tajik: эътилоф (e'tilof) — group of organizations
  • Tamil: கூட்டணி (kūṭṭaṇi) — group of organizations
  • Thai: พันธมิตร (pan-tá-mít) — group of organizations
  • Turkish: koalisyon — group of organizations
  • Ukrainian: коалі́ція (koalícija) — group of organizations
  • Uzbek: koalitsiya — group of organizations
  • Uzbek: ittifoq — group of organizations
  • Vietnamese: liên hiệp — group of organizations
Real reading context

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