union

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See also: Union and unión

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old French union, from Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuːnjən/
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Noun[edit]

union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)

  1. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
  3. (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  4. (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
  5. (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
  6. (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  7. (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  8. (countable) The act or state of marriage.
  9. (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
  10. (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
  11. (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , II.3.3:
      Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, and […] an union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].
  12. (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

Synonyms[edit]

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Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from union

Related terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

trade union — see trade union
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Verb[edit]

union (third-person singular simple present unions, present participle unioning, simple past and past participle unioned)

  1. To combine sets using the union operation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for union in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English union.

Noun[edit]

union c (singular definite unionen, plural indefinite unioner)

  1. a union

Inflection[edit]

Declension of union
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative union unionen unioner unionerne
genitive unions unionens unioners unionernes

Derived terms[edit]

Esperanto[edit]

Noun[edit]

union

  1. accusative singular of unio

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ūniōnem, accusative singular of ūniō. Compare the inherited doublet oignon.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

union f (plural unions)

  1. a union

Further reading[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unionar, definite plural unionane)

  1. a union (a political entity consisting of two or more state that are united)
    Noreg var i union med Sverige fram til 1905.
    Norway was part of a union with Sweden until 1905.
  2. (mathematics) union (the set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.)

References[edit]

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Late Latin unio.

Proper noun[edit]

union f (nominative singular union)

  1. Trinity (God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit)

Synonyms[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

union c

  1. a union (a body with many members)

Declension[edit]

Declension of union 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative union unionen unioner unionerna
Genitive unions unionens unioners unionernas

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Venetian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Italian unione

Noun[edit]

union f (invariable)

  1. union

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un (“one”) +‎ iawn (“right, correct”)

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): /ˈɪnjɔn/

Usage notes[edit]

  • Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /ɪ/ in all parts of Wales.

Adjective[edit]

union (feminine singular union, plural union)

  1. exact

Usage notes[edit]

  • Despite being written as u, the initial vowel here is /ɪ/ in all parts of Wales.

Derived terms[edit]

  • unioni (“to straighten; to rectify, to redress”)

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
union unchanged unchanged hunion
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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