union
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French union, from Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːnjən/
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Noun
union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
- (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.
- (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.
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- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, 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 […]
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- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
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Derived terms
- banjo union
- enterprise union
- European Union
- Soviet Union
- trades union, trade union
- union card
- unionised, unionized
- Union Springs
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Verb
union (third-person singular simple present unions, present participle unioning, simple past and past participle unioned)
- 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.)
Danish
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | union | unionen | unioner | unionerne |
genitive | unions | unionens | unioners | unionernes |
Derived terms
- personalunion
- realunion
Esperanto
French
Etymology
From Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ūniōnem, accusative singular of ūniō, from Latin uniō (“unite”). Compare the inherited doublet oignon (if the Latin root is indeed the same).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.njɔ̃/
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Further reading
- “union” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Late Latin unio (genitive unionis), from unus (“one”)
Noun
union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unioner, definite plural unionene)
- a union (of a political nature)
- Den europeiske union ― the European Union
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʉnɪˈuːn/
Derived terms
Occitan
Etymology
From Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin unio, unionem, from Latin unio (“unite”).
Synonyms
- Trinité
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).
Swedish
Pronunciation
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Declension
Declension of union | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | union | unionen | unioner | unionerna |
Genitive | unions | unionens | unioners | unionernas |
Related terms
- unionsupplösning
Venetian
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin unio, unionem, from Latin unio (“unite”). Compare Italian unione
Welsh
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈɪnjɔn/
Usage notes
- Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /ɪ/ in all parts of Wales.
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 | |||
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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. |