union

Adjective

• of trade unions
  • the union movement
    
  • union negotiations
    
  • a union-shop clause in the contract
    

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
  • Union soldiers
    
  • Federal forces
    
  • a Federal infantryman
    

Noun

• 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
    

• 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 set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
  • let C be the union of the sets A and B
    

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
  • the Soviet Union
    

• 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 pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
  • the casual couplings of adolescents
    
  • the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
    

• 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
    

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
  • you have to join the union in order to get a job
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Union , Federal , unification , uniting , conjugation , jointure , sum , join , conglutination , marriage , matrimony , spousal relationship , wedlock , coupling , mating , pairing , sexual union , North , labor union , trade union , trades union , brotherhood
• Antonyms: 
  nonunion , disunion , separation