union n 🔊

1. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
2. (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
3. (countable) Something 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.
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, programming) 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.
12. (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

union v

1. (set theory) To combine sets using the union operation.

union adj

1. Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
2. (India) federal.

☞ The New York Marriage Equality Act took effect on this day in 2011, legalizing same-sex marriage in New York and influencing similar legislation in other states.

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** Armenian: միություն (hy) (miutʻyun), միավորում (hy) (miavorum)

• Bashkir: берлек (berlek), берләшмә (berləşmə), берекмә (berekmə), союз (sojuz)

• Belarusian: саю́з m (sajúz), звяз m (zvjaz), зьвяз m (zʹvjaz) (Taraškievica)

• Bulgarian: съю́з (bg) m (săjúz)

• Catalan: unió (ca) f

• Chinese:: Dungan: лянбон (lianbon): Mandarin: 聯盟 / 联盟 (zh) (liánméng)

• Czech: svaz (cs) m, svazek (cs) m, unie (cs) f

• Danish: forening c, union (da) c

• Dutch: unie (nl) f, bond (nl) m, vereniging (nl) f, verbond (nl) n

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• Esperanto: unio
• Estonian: liit
• Finnish: liitto (fi)
• French: groupement (fr) m
• Galician: unión (gl) f
• Georgian: კავშირი (ka) (ḳavširi), გაერთიანება (gaertianeba)
• German: Vereinigung (de) f, Union (de) f
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi), σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
• Hindi: संयुक्त (hi) (sãyukt)
• Hungarian: unió (hu), szövetség (hu), egyesület (hu)
• Icelandic: samband (is) n, bandalag n, samtök n pl
• Indonesian: serikat (id)
• Irish: aontas m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: (regions) 連邦 (ja) (れんぽう, renpō), (group) 同盟 (ja) (どうめい, dōmei)
• Javanese: sarékat
• Kannada: ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ (kn) (okkūṭa)
• Kazakh: одақ (odaq)
• Khmer: សហពលកម្ម (saʼhaʼpŭəllĕəʼkam), សង្គតិ (km) (sɑngkĕəʼteʼ)
• Kurdish:: Central Kurdish: یەکیەتی (ckb) (yekyetî)
• Latin: societās (la) f, ūniō (la) f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: യൂണിയൻ (ml) (yūṇiyaṉ)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: संघ m (saṅgha)
• Mongolian:: Cyrillic: холбоо (mn) (xolboo)
• Norwegian:: Bokmål: forening (no) m or f, union (no) m: Nynorsk: union m
• Persian:: Iranian Persian: اِتِّحادِیِه (ettehâdiye)
• Polish: unia (pl) f, związek (pl) m
• Portuguese: união (pt) f
• Romanian: uniune (ro)
• Russian: сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: aonadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:: Cyrillic: са́вез m, у̑нија f: Latin: sávez (sh) m, ȗnija (sh) f
• Slovak: únia f, zväz (sk) m, sväz m (obsolete)
• Slovene: unija f, zveza f
• Spanish: unión (es) f
• Swahili: shirikisho (sw)
• Swedish: förening (sv) c, union (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaisahan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ittifak (tr), birlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: сою́з m (sojúz)
• Uyghur: ئىتتىپاق (ittipaq)
• Vietnamese: liên minh (vi) (聯盟), liên bang (vi) (聯邦)
• Yakut: холбоһук (qolbohuk)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרבאַנד m (farband), פֿאַראיין m (fareyn)*

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