What does union mean?

Definitions for union
ˈyun yənunion

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word union.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhoodnoun

    an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

    "you have to join the union in order to get a job"

  2. Union, Northnoun

    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. coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual unionnoun

    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. union, unificationnoun

    the state of being joined or united or linked

    "there is strength in union"

  5. marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlocknoun

    the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

    "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"

  6. union, conglutinationnoun

    healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

  7. unionnoun

    a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

    "the Soviet Union"

  8. union, sum, joinnoun

    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. unionnoun

    the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

    "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"

  10. unionnoun

    a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

  11. union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointureadjective

    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. Union, Federaladjective

    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. unionadjective

    of trade unions

    "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

Wiktionary

  1. unionnoun

    The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

  2. unionnoun

    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.

    a trade union

  3. unionnoun

    A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.

  4. unionnoun

    The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.

  5. unionnoun

    The act or state of marriage.

  6. unionnoun

    Sexual intercourse.

  7. unionnoun

    A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.

  8. unionnoun

    A large, high-quality pearl.

  9. Unionnoun

    The United States of America.

  10. Unionnoun

    Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War.

    a trade union

  11. Unionnoun

    The 0-10-2 train configuration. Derived from the name of the only U.S. company to use that configuration.

  12. Etymology: From union, from unionem, from unus

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unionnoun

    Etymology: unio, Lat.

    Adam, from whose dear side I boast me sprung,
    And gladly of our union hear thee speak,
    One heart, one soul in both! John Milton, Par. Lost.

    One kingdom, joy, and union without end. John Milton.

    The experience of those profitable emanations from God, most commonly are the first motive of our love; but when we once have tasted his goodness, we love the spring for its own excellency, passing from considering ourselves, to an union with God. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Living Holy.

    The king shall drink to Hamlet’s better breath;
    And in the cup an union shall he throw,
    Richer than that which four successive kings
    In Denmark’s crown have worn. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Wikipedia

  1. union

    The UNION of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property, or UNION-IP, is a European association of practitioners in the field of intellectual property. It was founded in 1961 under the name was "UNION of European Patent Attorneys".

ChatGPT

  1. union

    In the context of sets in mathematics, a union is a combined set that contains all the elements of two or more individual sets, with no repetition of elements. It is typically represented by the symbol '∪'. For example, the union of the sets {1, 2, 3} and {3, 4, 5} is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. Outside mathematics, "union" generally refers to the act of joining or combining two or more entities into one single unit.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unionnoun

    the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination

  2. Unionnoun

    agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord

  3. Unionnoun

    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. Unionnoun

    a textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together

  5. Unionnoun

    a large, fine pearl

  6. Unionnoun

    a device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain

  7. Unionnoun

    a joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection

  8. Unionnoun

    a cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on

Wikidata

  1. Union

    During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the 20 free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the Confederacy. The Union has often been referred to as "the North", both then and now.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Union

    ūn′yun, n. a uniting: that which is united or made one: something formed by the combination of parts or individual things or persons: concord: harmony in colour: agreement between parts: the state of wedlock: a device emblematic of union borne in the canton of a flag, the canton used separately as a flag, the union-jack: a combination as among workmen for class protection: several parishes united for joint support and management of their poor, also the workhouse for such: (pl.) textile fabrics made up of more than one kind of fibre, as of wool and cotton.—adj. Ūn′ioned, showing evidence of union.—n.pl. Ūnion′idæ, a family of lamellibranchiate molluscs represented in Britain by two genera, Ū′nio and Anodonta.—ns. Ūnionist, one who advocates or supports union, esp. an upholder of the Union and opponent of secession before the American Civil War, also one opposed to granting Home Rule to Ireland, whether a natural Conservative or one of the Liberals who fell away from Mr Gladstone on this question in 1886; Ūnion-jack, the national flag adopted by Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of a union of the crosses of St George, St Andrew, and St Patrick.—The Union, the legislative incorporation of England and Scotland in 1707, or of Ireland with both in 1801. [Fr. union—L. unio, -onisunus, one.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. UNION

    An ailing individual frequently troubled by scabs and liable to strike without warning.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. union

    The national flag of Great Britain, on shore or afloat. It is a composition of the crosses of St. George of England, St. Andrew of Scotland, and St. Patrick of Ireland, the last having been brought in in 1801. It was formerly inscribed, "For the Protestant Religion and for the Liberty of England." It is in the upper canton of all British ensigns. At the main it is the proper flag of an admiral of the fleet; and was thus flown by Lord Howe at the battle of June 1, 1794.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. union

    The national colors are called the union. When there is a blue field with white stripes, quartered in the angle of the American colors, that is, of the colors composed of red and white stripes, that blue field is called the union; and a small color of blue with white stars is called a union-jack.

Editors Contribution

  1. union

    Being connected.

    The union with a husband and wife is a bond they must create together and maintain throughout their life, what experiences they have knowing marriage is for life.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  


  2. union

    The act, process and fact of marriage.

    Marriage is the union of people.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 13, 2020  

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  1. union

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  2. union

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. UNION

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Union is ranked #37591 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Union surname appeared 592 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Union.

    59.9% or 355 total occurrences were Black.
    32.6% or 193 total occurrences were White.
    4.2% or 25 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.5% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'union' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #590

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'union' in Written Corpus Frequency: #630

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'union' in Nouns Frequency: #167

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of union in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of union in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of union in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Yang:

    If there's a problem that union workers don't feel like they have been properly included in the actual staging of The December Democratic presidential debate, then I am very happy to stand with workers.

  2. Andy Kim:

    A lot of my colleagues, especially on the select committee, use rhetoric like, ‘This is a new Cold War,’ first of all, it’s not true: The Soviet Union was a very different competitor than China. And it’s framed in a very zero-sum way … It’s very much being talked about as if their entire way of life is incompatible with ours and cannot coexist with ours, and that heightens the tension.

  3. Terry Fahn:

    Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and everyone else impacted by the tragedy in San Bernardino, webBank evaluates all loan applications in accordance with legal requirements including U.S. anti-terrorism and anti-money-laundering laws. In addition, Union Bank continually works with regulators to address their inquiries and concerns and will fully cooperate with law enforcement agencies investigating this matter.

  4. Eric Adams:

    I'm the mayor whose going to deliver real public safety for us and our families, i was endorsed by the police captains just yesterday, Eric Adams' old union, I might add. The officers who know Eric best have decided I'm the best choice to help make New Yorkers safe.

  5. Bert Hoffman:

    The crises in these Latin American countries just underscores Raul's decision to normalize relations with the United States, to come to terms with Western creditors and sign a cooperation agreement with the European Union.

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