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Union   /jˈunjən/   Listen
Union

noun
1.
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.  Synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union.
2.
The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War).  Synonym: North.  "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union" , "The North's superior resources turned the scale"
3.
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.  Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union.  "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
4.
The state of being joined or united or linked.  Synonym: unification.
5.
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce).  Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock.  "God bless this union"
6.
Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.  Synonym: conglutination.
7.
A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.
8.
A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.  Synonyms: join, sum.
9.
The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.
10.
A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).
11.
The act of making or becoming a single unit.  Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting.  "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
adjective
1.
Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.  Synonym: Federal.  "Federal forces" , "A Federal infantryman"
2.
Of trade unions.  "Union negotiations" , "A union-shop clause in the contract"



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"Union" Quotes from Famous Books



... Georgetown Union, that a negro, supposed to have died of cholera, when that disease prevailed in Charleston, was carried to the public burying ground to be interred; but before interment signs of life appeared, ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... wife, parent and child, friend and friend, pass through all intervening hindrances and come together when they trust and love, so you come closer to Christ as the very soul of your soul by an inward real union, than you do even to your dear ones, if you grapple Him to your heart with the hoops of steel, which, by simple trust in Him, the Divine Redeemer forges for us. 'Come unto Me,' being translated out of metaphor into fact, is simply 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren

... there, modest yet dignified, diffident yet self-possessed; and while he became convinced that there sat the bride selected by the Earl of Byerdale for his son, he was equally convinced that she was the person of all others whose fate would be the most miserable in such an union. ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James

... father's house," the amusements of a fashionable life, to realize with a half-pay officer or "younger brother," the purer, holier pleasures of domestic love in this country, where a numerous issue, the fruits of their union, are considered a blessing and a source of wealth, instead of bringing with them, as in the old country, an increase ...
— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland

... of hindering Prince Maurice from introducing soldiers into Utrecht; which might have occasioned much bloodshed in the city, and put the Prince and the Republic in the greatest danger; and which gave rise to dissentions and new treaties, contrary to the union of the provinces: whence the public order in Church and State was disturbed, the finances of the State exhausted, divisions arose between the States-General and the Provinces, and the union was on ...
— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny


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