civil union

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭv′əl yo͞on′yən
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪv.əl ˈjuːn.jən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪv.əl ˈjun.jən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪv.əl ˈjʉːn.jən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌsəv.əl ˈjʉːn.jən/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪv.əl ˈjʉn.jən/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪv.il ˈjuːn.jon/
• Hyphenation: civ‧il un‧ion

Noun

civil union (plural civil unions)

2. A legal union similar to marriage, established to allow same-sex couples (and, in some jurisdictions, opposite-sex couples) rights similar to those married couples have.

Synonyms

• (similar arrangement in various jurisdictions): civil union (several states in the U.S.), domestic partnership (several states in the U.S.), registered partnership (California), registered relationship (Victoria, Australia), significant relationship (Tasmania, Australia)

Translations

legal union similar to marriage

• Afrikaans: burgerlike verbintenis
• Asturian: xunión civil f
• Basque: batasun zibil, izatezko bikote
• Breton: emglev keodedel a gengred m
• Bulgarian: граждански съюз m (graždanski sǎjuz)
• Catalan: unió estable de parella f, unió civil f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民事結合 / 民事结合 (mínshì jiéhé), 公民結合 / 公民结合 (gōngmín jiéhé)

• Czech: registrované partnerství n
• Dutch: geregistreerd partnerschap n
• Esperanto: registrita partnereco
• Finnish: siviiliavioliitto, rekisteröity parisuhde (fi)
• French: union civile (fr) f, pacte civil de solidarité (fr) m, partenariat enregistré f
• Galician: unión civil (gl) f
• Georgian: სამოქალაქო კავშირი (samokalako ḳavširi), სამოქალაქო პარტნიორობა (samokalako ṗarṭnioroba)
• German: eingetragene Partnerschaft f
• Hawaiian: uniona kīwila
• Indonesian: persatuan sipil
• Irish: cumann sibhialta m
• Italian: unione civile (it) f
• Japanese: 市民の結合 (しみんのけつごう, shimin no ketsugō)
• Maltese: unjoni ċivili f
• Mirandese: ounion de fato f
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: nemekatilistli

• Norman: parchonn'nie civile f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: registrert partnerskap
• Occitan: union civila f
• Papiamentu: union civil
• Polish: (formalny / rejestrowany) związek partnerski m inan (literally “(formal / registered) civil union”)
• Portuguese: união civil f, união de facto f (Portugal), união estável f (Brazil)
• Russian: гражда́нский брак (ru) m (graždánskij brak), гражданское партнёрство n (graždanskoje partnjórstvo)
• Slovak: registrované partnerstvo n
• Spanish: unión civil f, unión de hecho f, pareja de hecho f
• Swedish: registrerat partnerskap
• Tahitian: faʻaauraʻa autaeaʻeraʻa
• Turkish: medeni birliktelik
• Ukrainian: цивільне партнерство n (cyvilʹne partnerstvo)
• Vietnamese: kết hợp dân sự
• Welsh: uniad sifil m

Further reading

• “civil union”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.