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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

un′ion jack`(n.)

  1. a jack consisting of the union of a national flag or ensign, as the U.S. jack, formed from the blue field and white stars of the U.S. national flag.

  2. (caps.) the British national flag.

    Category: British

  3. any flag the overall design of which is a union.

Origin of union jack:

1665–75

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Union Jack, Union flag(noun)

    national flag of the United Kingdom

Wiktionary

  1. Union Jack(Noun)

    The flag of the United Kingdom, consisting of the flags of England (St. George's Cross), Scotland (St. Andrew's Cross), and Ireland (St. Patrick's Cross) now only used in Northern Ireland combined.

  2. Union Jack(Noun)

    The flag, consisting of the blue star-studded field in the corner of the national ensign, flown at the jack staff by ships at anchor.

  3. Union Jack(Noun)

    The flag, consisting of the flags of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland combined, flown on ships of the government of the United Kingdom

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Union Jack

    originally the flag of Great Britain, on which the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew are blended, with which certain white streaks were blended or fimbriated after the Union with Ireland.


Translations for union jack

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Union Jack(noun)

the national flag of the United Kingdom.

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