English noun: allegiance | |||
1. | allegiance (act) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | ||
Samples | His long commitment to public service. They felt no loyalty to a losing team. | ||
Synonyms | commitment, dedication, loyalty | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cooperation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | communalism, consecration, devotion, enlistment, faith | ||
2. | allegiance (attribute) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | ||
Synonyms | fealty | ||
Broader (hypernym) | loyalty, trueness | ||