Union

Noun

 * 1) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
 * 4)  The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
 * 5) The act or state of marriage.
 * 6)  A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
 * 7)  A large, high-quality pearl.

Adjectives for Union
splendid; contingent; mystic; eternal; solemn; incestuous; ultimate; conjugal; habitual; unjust; constant; indissoluble; potent; powerful; fertile;  conscious;  perpetual ; existing; legislative; precipitate; unfathomable; moribund; hurried; illicit; fruitful; visible; labor; celestial; consummate; check¬off; complete; substantial; immemorial; perfect; fructifying; loathed; confederated; outstanding.

Verbs for Union
band into—; bind into—; consummate—; defend—; destroy—; disrupt—; encourage—; enter into— foster— further—; hallow—:hinder—; impede—; lack—; partition— preserve—; promote—; protect—; rend— signify—; solemnize—; sunder—; —affords —enables ; —flourishes; —insures ; —strengthens; —suffers.

Thesaurus
combine, combined effort, combining, combo, common market, communication, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, composition, comradeship, concatenation, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederating, confederation, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, confraternity, congeniality, congeries, conglomeration, congress, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjoining, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, consilience, consistency, consolidation, consonance, consort, consortium, conspiracy, consumer cooperative, conterminousness, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, cooperation, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, copulation, corps, correspondence, coterminousness, council, coupling, coverture, credit union, customs union, dealings, deduction, disjunction, dovetail, economic community, ecumenism, elbow, embodiment, embrace, empathy, encompassment, enosis, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, federalization, federation, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, frictionlessness, fusing, fusion, gang, gathering, gliding joint, good vibes, good vibrations, graft, group, grouping, guild, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, hinge, hinged joint, hip, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, homology, hookup, husbandhood, identification, identity, ill-assorted marriage, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interface, interlinking, intermarriage, interracial marriage, intersection, intimacy, join, joinder, joining, joint, jointure, junction, juncture, junta, juxtaposition, kinship, knee, knotting, knuckle, league, liaison, like-mindedness, link, linkage, linking, love, machine, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, marrying, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, meeting, meld, melding, mergence, merger, merging, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, miter, mixed marriage, mixing, mixture, mob, mortise, mutual attraction, mutuality, nearness, neck, nuptial bond, oneness, order, organization, overlap, package, package deal, pairing, parallelism, parasitism, partnership, party, peace, perigee, perihelion, pivot, pivot joint, political machine, propinquity, proximity, rabbet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, ring, sacrament of matrimony, saprophytism, scarf, seam, self-consistency, sharing, shoulder, similarity, simultaneity, society, sodality, solidarity, solidification, sorority, splice, spousehood, stitch, suture, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, symphysis, sync, synchronism, syncretism, syndicate, syndication, syneresis, synergy, synthesis, synthesizing, syzygy, tally, team, team spirit, tie, tie rod, tie-in, tie-up, timing, togetherness, toggle, toggle joint, trust, unanimity, understanding, unification, uniformity, unison, unisonance, united action, uniting, unity, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding, wedding knot, wedlock, weld, wifehood, wrist, yoking, Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, abutment, abuttal, accompaniment, accord, accordance, addition, adjoiningness, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agape, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, allying, amalgamating, amalgamation, amity, ankle, anschluss, apposition, approximation, appulse, articulation, assemblage, assent, assimilation, associating, association, axis, band, bed, blend, blending, bloc, body, bond, bond of matrimony, bonds of harmony, boundary, bracketing, bridebed, brotherhood, brotherly love, butt, cabal, cahoots, caritas, cartel, cement of friendship, centralization, cervix, charity, chorus, circle, clinch, closeness, closure, club, clustering, co-working, coaction, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cohabitation, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, colleagueship, collectivity, college, collegialism, collegiality, collusion, combination,

Etymology
From union, from  unionem:, from  unus:

Derived terms

 * banjo union
 * enterprise union
 * trades union, trade union
 * union card
 * unionised, unionized
 * European Union
 * Soviet Union

Related terms

 * reunion
 * reunification
 * unify
 * unity

Translations

 * Armenian: միավորում,
 * Finnish: liittäminen, (act);  (state)
 * Galician:
 * German: Vereinigung,
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Romanian:, unitate
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German: Vereinigung,
 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: ;


 * Latin:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:, , ,


 * Japanese: ユニオン継ぎ手
 * Russian: муфта
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: միավորում
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kunaĵo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: réunion
 * German: Vereinigung, Vereinigungsmenge


 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: sammengi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: объединение множеств (objedin'énije mnóžestv)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: σύζευξη,
 * Japanese:


 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese: 交合
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Vereinigung


 * Greek: ,
 * Indonesian: penyatuan
 * Japanese:
 * Swahili:


 * Japanese: 共用体


 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * iunno

Noun
union



Noun

 * 1) an union

Etymology
Borrowed from unionem (nominative: unio).

Noun

 * 1) a union (a body with many members)

Related terms

 * unionsupplösning