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English adjective: Union | |||
| 1. | Union being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War | ||
| Samples | Union soldiers. Federal forces. A Federal infantryman. | ||
| Synonyms | Federal | ||
| Similar | northern | ||
| Antonyms | southern | ||
| 2. | union of trade unions | ||
| Samples | The union movement. Union negotiations. A union-shop clause in the contract. | ||
| Similar | closed, organised, organized, unionised, unionized | ||
| Antonyms | nonunion | ||
English noun: union | |||
| 1. | union (group) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | ||
| Samples | You have to join the union in order to get a job. | ||
| Synonyms | brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organisation, organization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | company union, craft union, I.W.W., industrial union, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, vertical union | ||
| Part meronym | labor, labor movement, trade union movement | ||
| 2. | Union (location) the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War) | ||
| Samples | He has visited every state in the Union. Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union. The North's superior resources turned the scale. | ||
| Synonyms | North | ||
| Instance hypernym | America, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA | ||
| Part holonym | free state | ||
| Attribute | northern | ||
| Domain region | America, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA | ||
| 3. | union (act) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | ||
| Samples | The casual couplings of adolescents. The mating of some species occurs only in the spring. | ||
| Synonyms | conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | assortative mating, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, disassortative mating, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, inbreeding, interbreeding, service, servicing | ||
| 4. | union (state) the state of being joined or united or linked | ||
| Samples | There is strength in union. | ||
| Synonyms | unification | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | state | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | association, coalition, colligation, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, fusion, junction, link, marriage, syncretism | ||
| Antonyms | separation | ||
| 5. | union (state) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | ||
| Samples | A long and happy marriage. God bless this union. | ||
| Synonyms | marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | marital status | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bigamy, common-law marriage, cuckoldom, endogamy, exogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage, intermarriage, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamousness, monogamy, open marriage, polygamy, sigeh | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 6. | union (process) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | ||
| Synonyms | conglutination | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | healing | ||
| 7. | union (group) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations | ||
| Samples | The Soviet Union. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | political entity, political unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | confederacy, confederation, customs union, enosis, federation, league | ||
| 8. | union (group) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | ||
| Samples | Let C be the union of the sets A and B. | ||
| Synonyms | join, sum | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | direct sum | ||
| 9. | union (event) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts | ||
| Samples | Lightning produced an unusual union of the metals. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amphimixis, combine, combining, fusion, merger, unification | ||
| 10. | union (artifact) a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | device | ||
| 11. | union (act) the act of making or becoming a single unit | ||
| Samples | The union of opposing factions. He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays. | ||
| Synonyms | conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | combination, combining, compounding | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination, reunification, reunion, tribalisation, tribalization, umbrella | ||
| Antonyms | disunion | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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