English Explanatory Dictionary

union

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  2. The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
  3. Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  4. A trade union; a workers' union.
  5. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
  6. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  7. The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  8. The act or state of marriage.
  9. Sexual intercourse.
  10. A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
  11. A large, high-quality pearl.
  12. An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
verb
  1. To combine sets using the union operation.
adj
  1. Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
  2. federal.
noun
  1. The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement.
  2. The canton of the United States flag: the portion of the flag containing stars on a blue background.
name
  1. The United States of America.
  2. Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America).
  3. The Soviet Union: the proper noun Union is the standard English translation of the proper noun Союз (Sojuz), and All-Union is the standard English translation of всесоюзный (vsesojuznyj).
  4. Alternative form of union.
  5. Place names:
  6. A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
  7. A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
  8. A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
  9. A number of places in the United States:
  10. A town in Greene County, Alabama.
  11. A ghost town in Merced County, California.
  12. A former unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. The Oxford Union (a debating society); not to be conflated with Oxford University Student Union (a students' union).

Pronunciation

/ˈjuː.njən/ /ˈjuː.ni.ən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-union.wav en-us-union.ogg

Word forms

union unions unioning unioned more union most union the Union

Etymology

From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.

Synonyms

junction coalition combination unionized

Antonyms

nonunion disunion

Related words

reunification reunion unify unity intersection

Derived words

anti-union art union axiom of union banjo union civil union Clam Union company union credit union customs union de facto union discriminated union disjoint union disjoint union topology enterprise union European Union fruit of the union Great Union Day hypostatic union Kalmar Union labor union labour union Mount Union non-union Northern Union football personal union pipe union rugby union scab union sexual union single union agreement Soviet Union State of the Union State Union of Serbia and Montenegro students' union student union trades union trade union union bug union card union catalog union catalogue union cemetery union church union cloth Union County Union Day union high school unionise unionize union is strength Union Jack union job union makes strength union man Union Mills union pipes union shop Union Springs union station union suit

Translations

Bulgarian: му́фа Bulgarian: ни́пел Finnish: liitos French: connexion Greek: αρμός Greek: άρθρωση Greek: ένωση Greek: σύνδεσμος Hindi: संयुक्त Icelandic: tengi Indonesian: kesatuan Japanese: ユニオン継ぎ手 Russian: му́фта
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