name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
unity
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: /ˈjuːnɪti/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnəti/
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General-American: /ˈjunɪti/
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General-American: /ˈjunəti/
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rhymes with -uːnɪti
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CMU ARPABET: Y UW1 N AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: Y UW1 N IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Georgia.
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Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, also known as Hodges Park Station.
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Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A small unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place in Waldo County, Maine.
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Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
An unorganized territory in Kennebec County, Maine.
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Meaning 8
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri.
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Meaning 9
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
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Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adams County, Ohio.
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Meaning 11
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
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Meaning 12
A number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Baker County, Oregon.
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Meaning 13
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
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Meaning 14
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
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Meaning 15
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Clark County and Marathon County, Wisconsin, located partly within the town of Unity.
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Meaning 16
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
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name
Meaning 17
A state of South Sudan.
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noun
Meaning 18
Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonyms: unification, unionization, integration
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: union, unitedness, onehead, oneness, oneship, singleness, unicity, unitude, unity, unification, unionization, integration
Antonyms: disunity, multiplicity, plurality, manyness, manifoldness, manyhood, morefold, multeity, multipleness, nonunity, numerousness
noun
Meaning 19
Agreement; harmony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 20
A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 21
Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, drama, dramaturgy, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater
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noun
Meaning 22
The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- the cube roots of unity
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noun
Meaning 23
The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 24
The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Quakerism, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 25
the quality of being united into one
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oneness
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Broader terms: identity, identicalness, indistinguishability
noun
Meaning 26
the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it
- they had lunch at one
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Synonyms: one, 1, I, ace, single
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Broader terms: digit, figure
Narrower terms: monad, monas, singleton
noun
Meaning 27
an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development
- he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: integrity, wholeness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: completeness, incompleteness, rawness
History
Etymology
Majuscule letter version of unity.
From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. By surface analysis, unite + -y. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).
Across languages
Translations
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Unität — female given name
- Southern Altai: бирлик (birlik) — state of being one or undivided
- Arabic: وَحْدَة (waḥda) — state of being one or undivided
- Arabic: اِتِّحَاد (ittiḥād) — state of being one or undivided
- Armenian: միասնություն (miasnutʻyun) — state of being one or undivided
- Azerbaijani: vəhdət — state of being one or undivided
- Azerbaijani: birlik — state of being one or undivided
- Belarusian: адзі́нства (adzínstva) — state of being one or undivided
- Belarusian: е́днасць (jédnascʹ) — state of being one or undivided
- Belarusian: згуртава́насць (zhurtavánascʹ) — state of being one or undivided
- Bengali: ইত্তিহাদ (ittihad) — state of being one or undivided
- Bulgarian: еди́нство (edínstvo) — state of being one or undivided
- Bulgarian: сплоте́ност (sploténost) — state of being one or undivided
- Catalan: unitat — state of being one or undivided
- Chinese Mandarin: 統一 /统一 (tǒngyī) — state of being one or undivided
- Czech: jednota — state of being one or undivided
- Danish: enhed — state of being one or undivided
- Dutch: eenheid — state of being one or undivided
- Esperanto: unueco — state of being one or undivided
- Estonian: ühtsus — state of being one or undivided
- Estonian: üksmeel — state of being one or undivided
- Finnish: yhtenäisyys — state of being one or undivided
- Finnish: ykseys — state of being one or undivided
- French: unité — state of being one or undivided
- Georgian: ერთობა (ertoba) — state of being one or undivided
- Georgian: ერთიანობა (ertianoba) — state of being one or undivided
- German: Einheit — state of being one or undivided
- Greek: ενότητα (enótita) — state of being one or undivided
- Ancient Greek: ἑνότης (henótēs) — state of being one or undivided
- Ancient Greek: μονότης (monótēs) — state of being one or undivided
- Gujarati: સંપ (samp) — state of being one or undivided
- Hebrew: אַחְדוּת (akhdút) — state of being one or undivided
- Hindi: एकता (ektā) — state of being one or undivided
- Hindi: इत्तिहाद (ittihād) — state of being one or undivided
- Hindi: एका (ekā) — state of being one or undivided
- Hindi: ऐक्य (aikya) — state of being one or undivided
- Hungarian: egység — state of being one or undivided
- Irish: aontas — state of being one or undivided
- Italian: unità — state of being one or undivided
- Japanese: 団結 (danketsu) — state of being one or undivided
- Japanese: 統一 (tōitsu) — state of being one or undivided
- Korean: 단결 (dan'gyeol) — state of being one or undivided
- Korean: 단일 (danil) — state of being one or undivided
- Central Kurdish: یەکێتی (yekêtî) — state of being one or undivided
- Latin: ūnitās — state of being one or undivided
- Latvian: saliedētība — state of being one or undivided
- Latvian: vienotība — state of being one or undivided
- Lithuanian: vienybė — state of being one or undivided
- Lithuanian: vieningumas — state of being one or undivided
- Macedonian: единство (edinstvo) — state of being one or undivided
- Malay: perpaduan — state of being one or undivided
- Malayalam: ഐക്യം (aikyaṁ) — state of being one or undivided
- Malayalam: ഒരുമ (oruma) — state of being one or undivided
- Malayalam: ഒത്തൊരുമ (ottoruma) — state of being one or undivided
- Norwegian Bokmål: enhet — state of being one or undivided
- Norwegian Nynorsk: einskap — state of being one or undivided
- Old English: ānnes — state of being one or undivided
- Polish: jedność — state of being one or undivided
- Polish: łączność — state of being one or undivided
- Portuguese: unidade — state of being one or undivided
- Romanian: unire — state of being one or undivided
- Romanian: unitate — state of being one or undivided
- Russian: еди́нство (jedínstvo) — state of being one or undivided
- Russian: едине́ние (jedinénije) — state of being one or undivided
- Russian: сплочённость (spločónnostʹ) — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: јединство — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: једност — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: једињење — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: једноћа — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: jedinstvo — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: jednost — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: jedinjenje — state of being one or undivided
- Serbo-Croatian: jednoća — state of being one or undivided
- Shor: пиригиш (pirigiş) — state of being one or undivided
- Slovak: súdržnosť — state of being one or undivided
- Slovak: jednota — state of being one or undivided
- Slovene: enotnost — state of being one or undivided
- Slovene: sloga — state of being one or undivided
- Spanish: unidad — state of being one or undivided
- Swahili: umoja — state of being one or undivided
- Swedish: enhet — state of being one or undivided
- Tagalog: pagkakaisa — state of being one or undivided
- Telugu: ఐకమత్యం (aikamatyaṁ) — state of being one or undivided
- Telugu: ఏకత్వం (ēkatvaṁ) — state of being one or undivided
- Turkish: birlik — state of being one or undivided
- Ukrainian: є́дність (jédnistʹ) — state of being one or undivided
- Ukrainian: згурто́ваність (zhurtóvanistʹ) — state of being one or undivided
- Ukrainian: собо́рність (sobórnistʹ) — state of being one or undivided
- Welsh: undod — state of being one or undivided
- Yiddish: אַחדות (akhdes) — state of being one or undivided
- Bulgarian: единица (edinica) — single undivided thing
- Finnish: kokonaisuus — single undivided thing
- Irish: aontas — single undivided thing
- Dutch: eenheid — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- Finnish: ykseys — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- German: Einheit — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- Greek: ενότητα (enótita) — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- Hungarian: (hármas) egység — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- Korean: 일치 (ilchi) — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- Russian: еди́нство (jedínstvo) — drama: any of the three classical rules of drama
- Bulgarian: едини́ца (ediníca) — mathematics: something that behaves like the number 1 in multiplication
- Finnish: identiteettialkio — mathematics: something that behaves like the number 1 in multiplication
- German: Identität — mathematics: something that behaves like the number 1 in multiplication
- Greek: μονάδα (monáda) — mathematics: something that behaves like the number 1 in multiplication
- Russian: едини́ца (jediníca) — mathematics: something that behaves like the number 1 in multiplication
- Bulgarian: съвместно владение (sǎvmestno vladenie) — law: the peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy
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