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adj
Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: unionized
Antonyms: nonunion
adj
federal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India
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name
The United States of America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated, especially, obsolete
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name
Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
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name
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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name
Alternative form of union.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, alt-of, alternative
Topics: law
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name
Place names:
A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
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name
Place names:
A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
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name
Place names:
A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Greene County, Alabama.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Merced County, California.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A former unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in McHenry County, Illinois.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Pike County, Indiana.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Hardin County, Iowa.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A home rule city in Boone County, Kentucky.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Knox County, Maine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Neshoba County and Newton County, Mississippi.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Missouri.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A village and census-designated place in the town of Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in Madison County, New York.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A large town in Broome County, New York.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Montgomery County and Miami County, Ohio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Union County, Oregon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Union County, South Carolina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town, the county seat of Monroe County, West Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Door County, Wisconsin.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Lima, Grant County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
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name
Place names:
A number of places in the United States:
A large number of townships in the United States, listed under Union Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
The Oxford Union (a debating society); not to be conflated with Oxford University Student Union (a students' union).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Qualifier: Oxford University
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: junction, coalition, combination
Antonyms: nonunion, disunion
noun
The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonunion, disunion
noun
Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A trade union; a workers' union.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory
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noun
The act or state of marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Sexual intercourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, euphemistic, uncountable
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noun
A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
A large, high-quality pearl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable
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noun
An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The canton of the United States flag: the portion of the flag containing stars on a blue background.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To combine sets using the union operation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory
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adjective
of trade unions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonunion
adjective satellite
being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: Federal
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the act of making or becoming a single unit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure
Antonyms: disunion
Broader terms: combination, combining, compounding
Narrower terms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination, reunion, reunification, tribalization, tribalisation, umbrella
noun
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Narrower terms: assortative mating, disassortative mating, hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing, inbreeding, servicing, service
noun
a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: device
noun
the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Narrower terms: amphimixis, fusion, merger, unification, combining, combine
noun
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sum, join
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: set
Narrower terms: direct sum
noun
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organization, organisation
Narrower terms: industrial union, vertical union, craft union, company union, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.
noun
a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: political unit, political entity
Narrower terms: confederation, confederacy, federation, enosis, league, customs union
noun
the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: North
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
noun
healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: conglutination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: healing
noun
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: marital status
Narrower terms: bigamy, common-law marriage, endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage, exogamy, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamy, monogamousness, open marriage, cuckoldom, polygamy, sigeh
noun
the state of being joined or united or linked
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: unification
Antonyms: separation
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: coalition, fusion, connection, link, connectedness, junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation, association, marriage, syncretism
History
From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
(locomotive): Derived from the name of the only U.S. company to use that configuration.
Probably a variant spelling of Onion.
Clipping of Oxford Union.
Across languages
387 source translations are retained for this English entry.
