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Sounds | yuw'nyahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War. |
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Examples | "Union soldiers" |
Synonyms | Federal |
Similar to | northern |
Meaning | Of trade unions. |
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Examples | "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" |
Similar | closed; organized, organised, unionized, unionised |
Contrary | nonunion |
Meaning | An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer. |
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Examples | "you have to join the union in order to get a job" |
Synonyms | labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood |
Part of | labor movement, trade union movement, labor |
Narrower | industrial union, vertical union; craft union; company union; Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W. |
Broader | organization, organisation |
Verbs | unionize; unionize |
Meaning | The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War). |
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Examples | "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union" |
Synonyms | North |
Attributes | northern |
Parts | free state |
Region | United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. |
Broader | United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. |
Meaning | The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. |
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Synonyms | coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union |
Narrower | assortative mating; disassortative mating; hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing; inbreeding; servicing, service |
Broader | sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity |
Meaning | The state of being joined or united or linked. |
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Examples | "there is strength in union" |
Synonyms | unification |
Narrower | coalition, fusion; connection, link, connectedness; junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation; association; marriage; syncretism |
Broader | state |
Contrary | separation |
Meaning | The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce). |
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Examples | "God bless this union" |
Synonyms | marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Narrower | bigamy; common-law marriage; endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage; exogamy, intermarriage; marriage of convenience; misalliance; monandry; monogamy, monogamousness; open marriage; polygamy; sigeh |
Broader | marital status |
Meaning | Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones. |
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Synonyms | conglutination |
Broader | healing |
Meaning | A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations. |
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Examples | "the Soviet Union" |
Narrower | confederation, confederacy, federation; enosis; league; customs union |
Broader | political unit |
Meaning | A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets. |
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Examples | "let C be the union of the sets A and B" |
Synonyms | sum, join |
Narrower | direct sum |
Broader | set |
Meaning | The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts. |
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Examples | "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" |
Narrower | amphimixis; fusion, merger, unification; combining, combine |
Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
Meaning | A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner). |
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Broader | device |
Meaning | The act of making or becoming a single unit. |
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Examples | "the union of opposing factions" |
Synonyms | unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure |
Narrower | coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination; reunion, reunification; tribalization, tribalisation; umbrella |
Broader | combination, combining, compounding |
Contrary | disunion |
Verbs | unite |