union

See also: Union and unión

English

Etymology

From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːn.jən/, /ˈjuː.ni.ən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːnjən

Noun

union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)

1. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
2. (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
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[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.

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, programming) 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.
    • 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.

12. (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

Synonyms

• (the act of uniting): junction, coalition, combination

Antonyms

• non-union, nonunion

Derived terms

• banjo union
• discriminated union
• enterprise union
• European Union
• hypostatic union
• Mount Union
• Soviet Union
• State of the Union
• trades union, trade union
• union card
• Union County
• unionise, unionize
• Union Jack
• Union Mills
• union shop
• Union Springs
• union station
• union suit
• union territory

 

Related terms

• reunion
• reunification
• unify
• unity

Translations

the act of uniting or the state of being united

• Afrikaans: unie (af)
• Albanian: bashkim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِتِّحَاد‎ (ar) m (ittiḥād), اِتِّفَاق‎ m (ittifāq)
• Armenian: (act) միավորում (hy) (miavorum), (state) միություն (hy) (miutʿyun)
• Asturian: xunión f
• Azerbaijani: ittifaq, birlik (az)
• Bashkir: берләшеү (berläşew) (act of uniting), берлек (berlek) (state of being united)
• Belarusian: саю́з m (sajúz), звяз m (zvjaz), зьвяз m (zʹvjaz) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ইত্তিহাদ (bn) (ittihad), ইত্তেফাক (bn) (ittefaq), মিলন (milôn), সঙ্ঘ (śôṅgh)
• Bulgarian: съю́з (bg) m (sǎjúz)
• Burmese: သမဂ္ဂ (my) (sa.magga.), ယူနီယန် (my) (yuniyan), ပြည်ထောင်စု (my) (pranyhtaungcu.)
• Catalan: unió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯盟 (zh), 联盟 (zh) (liánméng), 聯合 (zh), 联合 (zh) (liánhé), 同盟 (zh) (tóngméng)

• Czech: unie (cs) f, svaz (cs) m, sjednocení (cs) n
• Danish: union c, forening c
• Dutch: unie (nl) f, verbond (nl) n, vereniging (nl) f, vakbond (nl) m
• Estonian: liit
• Finnish: liittäminen (fi), liitos (fi) (act), liitto (fi) (state)
• French: union (fr) f
• Galician: unión f
• Georgian: კავშირი (ḳavširi)
• German: Vereinigung (de) f, Union (de) f, Verein (de) m, Verband (de) m
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi), σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)

  Ancient: ἕνωσις f (hénōsis)

• Hawaiian: uniona
• Hebrew: בְּרִית‎ (he) f (brit)
• Hindi: संघ (hi) m (saṅgh), यूनियन (hi) (yūniyan)
• Hungarian: egyesítés (hu) (the act of uniting), egyesülés (hu) (becoming united), unió (hu) (the state of being united)
• Icelandic: sameining f (the act or process of uniting; more rarely, the state of being united), eining f (state of being united)
• Indonesian: uni (id)
• Irish: aontas m
• Italian: unione (it) f
• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō), 連邦 (ja) (れんぽう, renpō), 聯盟 (ja) (れんめい, renmei), 同盟 (ja) (どうめい, dōmei)
• Kazakh: одақ (kk) (odaq), бірлік (bırlık)
• Khmer: សហភាព (saʼhaʼphiəp)
• Korean: 연맹(聯盟) (ko) (yeonmaeng), 련맹(聯盟) (ko) (ryeonmaeng) (North Korea), 동맹(同盟) (ko) (dongmaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یەکگِرتوویی‎ (yekgirtûyî)

  Northern Kurdish: yekîtî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: союз (ky) (soyuz), бирлик (ky) (birlik)
• Lao: ສະຫະພາບ (sa ha phāp)
• Latin: adūnātiō f, uniō (la) f
• Latvian: savienība f
• Lithuanian: sąjunga (lt) f
• Macedonian: сојуз m (sojuz), унија f (unija)
• Malay: kesatuan (ms)
• Malayalam: ഏകീകരണം (ml) (ēkīkaraṇaṃ)
• Maltese: unjoni f, għaqda f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: холбоо (mn) (xolboo)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forening (no) m or f, forbund (no) n

• Occitan: union (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: съѭзъ m (sŭjǫzŭ)

• Papiamentu: union
• Pashto: اتحاد‎ (ps) m (etehãd)
• Persian: اتحاد‎ (fa) (ettehâd), اتفاق‎ (fa) (ettefâq)
• Polish: unia (pl) f, związek (pl) m, sojusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: união (pt) f, junção (pt) f
• Rapa Nui: hakapirina
• Romanian: unire (ro) f, unitate (ro) f, uniune (ro) f
• Russian: сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), слия́ние (ru) n (slijánije), у́ния (ru) f (únija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са́вез m, у̑нија f

  Roman: sávez (sh) m, ȗnija (sh) f

• Slovak: únia f, zväz m, sväz m (obsolete)
• Slovene: unija f
• Spanish: unión (es) f
• Swedish: union (sv) c, förening (sv) c, förbund (sv) n
• Tagalog: unyon
• Tajik: иттиҳод (ittihod), иттифоқ (ittifoq)
• Tatar: бердәмлек (tt) (berdämlek), берлек (tt) (berlek)
• Thai: สหภาพ (th) (sà-hà-pâap)
• Turkish: birlik (tr)
• Turkmen: ittifoq, birlik (tk)
• Ukrainian: сою́з m (sojúz), об'єдна́ння (uk) n (obʺjednánnja) (process of uniting), об'є́днання (uk) n (obʺjédnannja) (state of being united)
• Urdu: اتحاد‎ (ur) (ittihād)
• Uyghur: ئىتتىپاق‎ (ittipaq)
• Uzbek: ittifoq (uz), birlik (uz), ittihod (uz) (dated), soyuz (uz), uyushma (uz), birlashma (uz)
• Vietnamese: liên minh (vi) (聯盟), liên bang (vi) (聯邦)
• Yiddish: פֿאַראיין‎ m (fareyn), פֿאַרבאַנד‎ m (farband)

that which is united; something formed by a combination of parts or members

• Armenian: միություն (hy) (miutʿyun), միավորում (hy) (miavorum)
• Bashkir: берлек (berlek), берләшмә (berläşmä), берекмә (berekmä), союз (soyuz)
• Bulgarian: съю́з (bg) m (sǎjúz)
• Catalan: unió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Dungan: лянбон (li͡anbon)

  Mandarin: 聯盟 (zh), 联盟 (zh) (liánméng)

• Czech: svaz (cs) m, svazek (cs) m, unie (cs) f
• Danish: forening c, union c
• Dutch: unie (nl) f, bond (nl) m, vereniging (nl) f, verbond (nl) n
• Egyptian: (dmḏ)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: liit
• Finnish: liitto (fi)
• French: groupement (fr) m
• Galician: unión f
• Georgian: კავშირი (ḳavširi), გაერთიანება (gaertianeba)
• German: Vereinigung (de) f, Union (de) f
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi), σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
• Hungarian: unió (hu), szövetség (hu), egyesület (hu)
• Icelandic: samband (is) n, bandalag n, samtök n pl
• Indonesian: serikat (id)
• Irish: aontas m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: (regions) 連邦 (ja) (れんぽう, renpō), (group) 同盟 (ja) (どうめい, dōmei)
• Javanese: sarékat
• Kazakh: одақ (kk) (odaq)
• Khmer: សហពលកម្ម (saʼhaʼpŭəllĕəʼkam), សង្គតិ (km) (sɑngkĕəʼteʼ)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یەکیەتی‎ (yekyetî)

• Latin: societās f, ūniō (la) f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: യൂണിയൻ (ml) (yūṇiyaṉ)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: холбоо (mn) (xolboo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forening (no) m or f, union (no) m

  Nynorsk: union m

• Persian: اتحادیه‎ (fa) (ettehâdiye)
• Polish: unia (pl) f, związek (pl) m
• Portuguese: união (pt) f
• Romanian: uniune (ro)
• Russian: сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: aonadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: unión (es) f
• Swahili: shirikisho (sw)
• Swedish: förening (sv) c, union (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaisahan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئىتتىپاق‎ (ittipaq)
• Vietnamese: liên minh (vi) (聯盟), liên bang (vi) (聯邦)
• Yakut: холбоһук (xolbohuk)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרבאַנד‎ m (farband), פֿאַראיין‎ m (fareyn)

trade union — see trade union

joint

• Bulgarian: муфа (bg) f (mufa), нипел m (nipel)
• Finnish: liitos (fi)
• French: connexion (fr) f
• Greek: αρμός (el) f (armós), άρθρωση (el) f (árthrosi), ένωση (el) f (énosi), σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
• Icelandic: tengi n
• Indonesian: kesatuan (id)
• Japanese: ユニオン継ぎ手 (ユニオンつぎて, yunion tsugite)
• Russian: му́фта (ru) f (múfta)

in set theory

• Armenian: միավորում (hy) (miavorum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 併集, 并集 (bìngjí)

• Czech: sjednocení (cs) n
• Danish: foreningsmængde c
• Dutch: vereniging (nl)
• Esperanto: kunaĵo
• Finnish: yhdiste (fi), unioni (fi)
• French: réunion (fr) f
• German: Vereinigung (de) f, Vereinigungsmenge (de) f
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi)
• Hebrew: איחוד‎
• Hungarian: unió (hu)
• Icelandic: sammengi n
• Indonesian: gabungan (id)
• Irish: aontas m
• Italian: unione (it) f
• Japanese: 和集合 (ja) (わしゅうごう, washūgō)
• Korean: 합집합(合集合) (hapjiphap)
• Norwegian: union (no) m
• Polish: suma (zbiorów) f, suma mnogościowa f
• Portuguese: união (pt) f
• Romanian: reuniune (ro) f
• Russian: объедине́ние мно́жеств n (obʺjedinénije mnóžestv)
• Spanish: unión (es) f
• Swedish: union (sv)
• Tagalog: kaisahan

marriage

• Armenian: միություն (hy) (miutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: брак (bg) m (brak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 婚姻 (zh) (hūnyīn), 結婚 (zh), 结婚 (zh) (jiéhūn)

• Finnish: avioliitto (fi), liitto (fi)
• French: marriage (fr) m
• Greek: σύζευξη (el) f (sýzefxi), γάμος (el) m (gámos)
• Hungarian: egybekelés, házasság (hu)
• Icelandic: gifting (is) f (act), hjónavígsla f (act), vígsla f (act), hjónaband (is) n (state)
• Japanese: 結婚 (ja) (けっこん, kekkon)
• Latin: coniugium n
• Malayalam: വിവാഹം (ml) (vivāhaṃ)
• Portuguese: matrimónio (pt) m (Portugal), matrimônio (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), бра́чный сою́з m (bráčnyj sojúz), брак (ru) m (brak), бракосочета́ние (ru) n (brakosočetánije)
• Swedish: förening (sv) c
• Ukrainian: шлюб (uk) m (šljub)

sexual intercourse

• Bulgarian: съвокупление n (sǎvokuplenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性交 (zh) (xìngjiāo), 交合 (zh) (jiāohé)

• Dutch: gemeenschap (nl)
• Finnish: yhdyntä (fi)
• French: accouplement (fr) m, copulation (fr) f, fornication (fr) f
• German: Vereinigung (de) f
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi), συνουσία (el) f (synousía)
• Indonesian: penyatuan (id)
• Japanese: 性交 (ja) (せいこう, seikō)
• Korean: 성교(性交) (ko) (seonggyo)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധപ്പെടൽ (bandhappeṭal), ലൈംഗിക ബന്ധം (laiṅgika bandhaṃ)
• Portuguese: sexo (pt) m
• Russian: сноше́ние (ru) n (snošénije), совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije)
• Vietnamese: tính giao (vi) (性交)

computing: certain data structure

• Finnish: yhdiste (fi), yhdistelmä (fi), unioni (fi)
• French: union (fr) f
• Japanese: 共用体 (きょうようたい, kyōyōtai)
• Polish: unia (pl) f
• Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} اِتِّحَاد‎ (ar) m (ittiḥād)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} unie (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} union (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Union (de) f
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} samband (is)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} unione (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 연맹 (ko) (yeonmaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} یەکێتی‎ (yekêtî)

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} union (sv)

Verb

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

• intersection
• Wikipedia article about unions in set theory

Adjective

union (comparative more union, superlative most union)

1. Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.

   Actors have to be union to get work here.

Anagrams

• iunno

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uniˈoˀn/

Noun

union c (singular definite unionen, plural indefinite unioner)

1. union

Inflection

Declension of union

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

Derived terms

• personalunion
• realunion

Further reading

• “union” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “union” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unie.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧on

Noun

union m (plural unions)

1. (US, obsolete) A trade union.

   Synonyms: syndicaat, vakbond

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Esperanto

Noun

union

1. accusative singular of unio

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French

Etymology

From Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.njɔ̃/

• audio

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Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. union

Derived terms

• l'union fait la force
• réunion
• trait d'union
• Union africaine
• union civile
• Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques
• Union eurasiatique
• Union européenne
• Union sacrée
• union sacrée
• Union soviétique

 

Descendants

• → German: Union

Further reading

• “union”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Friulian

Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. union

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Noun

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unioner, definite plural unionene)

1. union (of a political nature)

   Den europeiske union ― the European Union

Derived terms

• Sovjetunionen

References

• “union” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “union” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʉnɪˈuːn/

Noun

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

1. 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.)

Derived terms

• Sovjetunionen

References

• “union” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. union

Related terms

• unir

References

• "union" in Dicod'òc

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Proper noun

union f (nominative singular union)

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

Synonyms

• Trinité

Descendants

• English: union
• French: union

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish unión, ultimately from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Noun

union

1. union

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• üniun

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yˈnjuŋ/

Noun

union f (plural union)

1. union

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

union c

1. union (a body with many members)

Declension

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

Derived terms

• unionsupplösning

See also

• fackförening
• federation
• förbund
• förening
• kår
• studentkår

Further reading

• union in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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Venetian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈnjoŋ/

Noun

union f (invariable)

1. union

Related terms

• unir

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Welsh

Etymology

un (“one”) +‎ iawn (“right, correct”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnjɔn/

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

Adjective

union (feminine singular union, plural union, equative unioned, comparative unionach, superlative unionaf)

1. exact

Derived terms

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

Mutation

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.