Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < MF < LL ūn(us) one)
Definition of 'union'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
2. (noun)Union, North the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War) "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
3. (noun)coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
4. (noun)union, unification the state of being joined or united or linked "there is strength in union"
5. (noun)marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock the state of being a marriedcouple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
6. (noun)union, conglutination healingprocess involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
7. (noun)union a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations "the Soviet Union"
8. (noun)union, sum, join a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
9. (noun)union the occurrence of a uniting of separateparts "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
10. (noun)union a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11. (adj)union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure the act of making or becoming a single unit "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
12. (adj)Union, Federal being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
13. (adj)union of trade unions "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
1. (noun)union an organization that aims to protect workers rights the miners union; union membership
2. union Union a number of states or countries that are joined together the former Soviet Union
3. union the state or process of joining together social/political union
Definition of 'union'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)union the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination
2. (noun)union agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord
3. (noun)union 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; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union
4. (noun)union a textilefabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together
Definitions of union 
Afrikaans: vereniging, unifikasie
Arabic: تَوْحيد، إتِّحاد
Bulgarian: съюз
Brazilian: união
Czech: spojení
German: die Vereinigung
Danish: union
Greek: ένωση (ως πράξη και ως δι
Spanish: unión
Estonian: liit;ühinemine
Farsi: اتحاد
Finnish: liittoutuminen
French: union
Hebrew: אִיחוּד
Hindi: मेल
Croatian: savez
Hungarian: egyesítés; egyesülés
Indonesian: persatuan
Icelandic: sameining, samruni
Italian: unione
Japanese: 連合
Korean: 연합
Lithuanian: sąjunga, susivienijimas
Latvian: savienība
Malay: penyatuan
Dutch: unie
Norwegian: forening, forbund, union
Polish: unia
Portuguese: união
Romanian: unire
Russian: объединение
Slovak: spojenie
Slovenian: združitev
Serbian: savez
Swedish: förening, enande
Thai: การรวมตัวกัน
Turkish: birleşme
Taiwanese: 聯合
Ukrainian: об'єднання, союз
Urdu: اتحاد
Vietnamese: sự hợp nhất, sự kết hợp
Chinese: 联合
