union
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- (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.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- 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.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 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 […]
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
- And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Synonyms[edit]
- (the act of uniting): junction, coalition, combination
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Verb[edit]
union (third-person singular simple present unions, present participle unioning, simple past and past participle unioned)
- 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)
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Adjective[edit]
union (comparative more union, superlative most union)
- Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
- Actors have to be union to get work here.
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
union c (singular definite unionen, plural indefinite unioner)
Inflection[edit]
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | union | unionen | unioner | unionerne |
genitive | unions | unionens | unioners | unionernes |
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Further reading[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unie.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: u‧ni‧on
Noun[edit]
union m (plural unions)
- (US, obsolete) A trade union.
Esperanto[edit]
Noun[edit]
union
- accusative singular of unio
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
union f (plural unions)
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Descendants[edit]
- → German: Union
Further reading[edit]
- “union”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian[edit]
Noun[edit]
union f (plural unions)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Noun[edit]
union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unioner, definite plural unionene)
- union (of a political nature)
- Den europeiske union ― the European Union
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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unionar, definite plural unionane)
- 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.
- (mathematics) union (the set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “union” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Noun[edit]
union f (plural unions)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- "union" in Dicod'òc
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Proper noun[edit]
union f (nominative singular union)
- Trinity (God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit)
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Papiamentu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish unión, ultimately from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Noun[edit]
union
Piedmontese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
union f (plural union)
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
union c
- union (a body with many members)
Declension[edit]
Declension of union | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | union | unionen | unioner | unionerna |
Genitive | unions | unionens | unioners | unionernas |
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Venetian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
union f (invariable)
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Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un (“one”) + iawn (“right, correct”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
union (feminine singular union, plural union, equative unioned, comparative unionach, superlative unionaf)
Derived terms[edit]
- unioni (“to straighten; to rectify, to redress”)
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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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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