union

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See also: Union and unión

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuːnjən/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

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, 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.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      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

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Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

trade union — see trade union
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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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

See also

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English union.

Pronunciation

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

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English union.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: uni‧on

Noun

union m (plural unions)

  1. (US, obsolete) A trade union.
    Synonyms: syndicaat, vakbond

Esperanto

Noun

union

  1. accusative singular of unio

French

Etymology

From Old French union, borrowed from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "LL" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., accusative singular of ūniō, from Latin uniō (“unite”). Compare the inherited doublet oignon (if the Latin root is indeed the same).

Pronunciation

Noun

union f (plural unions)

  1. union

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Late Latin unio (genitive unionis), from unus (“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

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

References

Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

union f (plural unions)

  1. union

References

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin unio, unionem, from Latin unio (“unite”).

Proper noun

union f (nominative singular union)

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

Synonyms

Descendants

  • English: union
  • French: union

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish unión.

The Spanish word comes from Latin unio (“to unite”).

Noun

union

  1. union

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

union f (plural union)

  1. union

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Related terms

See also

Further reading

Venetian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin unio, unionem, from Latin unio (“unite”). Compare Italian unione

Pronunciation

Noun

union f (invariable)

  1. union

Related terms

Welsh

Etymology

un (“one”) +‎ iawn (“right, correct”)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈɪnjɔn/

Usage notes

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

Adjective

union (feminine singular union, plural union, unknown comparative)

  1. exact

Usage notes

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

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.
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