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Defenition of the word union

    • Defenition of the word union

      • The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.
      • Of or pertaining to trade unions.
      • 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"
      • state of being husband and wife; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
      • of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
      • a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
      • the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
      • a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
      • the state of being united; "there is strength in union"
      • being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
      • an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
      • the United States during the Civil War; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
      • 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"
      • making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
      • the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
      • the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
      • the act of making or becoming a single unit
      • the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
      • the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
      • a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
      • an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
      • a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
      • the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
      • the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
      • the state of being joined or united or linked
      • being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
      • of trade unions

    Synonyms for the word union

      • brotherhood
      • conjugation
      • coupling
      • Federal
      • join
      • labor union
      • marriage
      • mating
      • matrimony
      • North
      • pairing
      • sexual union
      • sum
      • trade union
      • trades union
      • unification
      • Union
      • uniting
      • wedlock

    Similar words in the union

      • closed
      • closed(a)
      • northern
      • organised
      • organized
      • unionised
      • unionized

    Meronymys for the word union

      • free state
      • labor
      • labor movement
      • trade union movement

    Hyponyms for the word union

      • amphimixis
      • association
      • assortative mating
      • bigamy
      • coalescence
      • coalescency
      • coalition
      • colligation
      • combine
      • combining
      • common-law marriage
      • company union
      • concretion
      • confederacy
      • confederation
      • conglutination
      • conjugation
      • conjunction
      • connectedness
      • connection
      • craft union
      • cross
      • crossbreeding
      • crossing
      • cuckoldom
      • customs union
      • direct sum
      • disassortative mating
      • endogamy
      • enosis
      • exogamy
      • federation
      • fusion
      • hybridisation
      • hybridization
      • hybridizing
      • I.W.W.
      • inbreeding
      • industrial union
      • Industrial Workers of the World
      • inmarriage
      • interbreeding
      • intermarriage
      • IWW
      • junction
      • league
      • link
      • marriage
      • marriage of convenience
      • merger
      • misalliance
      • monandry
      • monogamousness
      • monogamy
      • open marriage
      • polygamy
      • reunification
      • reunion
      • service
      • servicing
      • sigeh
      • syncretism
      • tribalisation
      • tribalization
      • umbrella
      • unification
      • vertical union

    Hypernyms for the word union

      • America
      • combination
      • combining
      • compounding
      • device
      • happening
      • healing
      • marital status
      • natural event
      • occurrence
      • occurrent
      • organisation
      • organization
      • political entity
      • political unit
      • set
      • sex
      • sex activity
      • sexual activity
      • sexual practice
      • state
      • U.S.
      • U.S.A.
      • United States
      • United States of America
      • US
      • USA

    Antonyms for the word union

      • disunion
      • nonunion
      • separation

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