union

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French union, from Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnjən/

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Noun

union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)

1. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
2. (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
3. (countable) 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.
4. (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

5. (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
6. (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
7. (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
8. (countable) The act or state of marriage.
9. (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
10. (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
11. (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , II.3.3:

      Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, and […] an union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].

Verb

union (third-person singular simple present unions, present participle unioning, simple past and past participle unioned)

1. To combine sets using the union operation.

See also

• intersection
• Wikipedia article about unions in set theory

Anagrams

• iunno

Etymology

Borrowed from English union.

Noun

union c (singular definite unionen, plural indefinite unioner)

1. a union

Noun

union

1. accusative singular of unio

Etymology

From Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ūniōnem, accusative singular of ūniō. Compare the inherited doublet oignon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.njɔ̃/

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Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. a union

Further reading

• “union” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Late Latin unionem, from Latin ūnus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʉnɪˈuːn/

Noun

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unionar, definite plural unionane)

1. a union (a political entity consisting of two or more state that are united)

   Noreg var i union med Sverige fram til 1905.

   Norway was part of a union with Sweden until 1905.

2. (mathematics) union (the set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.)

References

• “union” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin unio.

Proper noun

union f (nominative singular union)

1. Trinity (God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit)

Pronunciation

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Noun

union c

1. a union (a body with many members)

Etymology

Compare Italian unione

Noun

union f (invariable)

1. union

Etymology

un (“one”) +‎ iawn (“right, correct”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɪnjɔn/

Adjective

union (feminine singular union, plural union)

1. exact

Mutation