# union
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjuː.njən/, /ˈjuː.ni.ən/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːnjən

### Noun

union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)
* (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
    Synonyms: junction, coalition, combination
    Antonym: nonunion
* (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
    Antonym: nonunion
* (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
* (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.
* (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
* (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
* (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
* (countable) The act or state of marriage.
* (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
* (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
** 2008, Kris Bell, Lars Ivar Igesund, Sean Kelly, Learn to Tango with D, page 58:Unions are useful in those cases where you need to keep track of a value that can be represented as different data types during the lifetime of the program.
* (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 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 […]
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.
* (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

#### Derived terms

* anti-union
* art union
* axiom of union
* banjo union
* civil union
* Clam Union
* company union
* credit union
* customs union
* discriminated union
* disjoint union
* disjoint union topology
* enterprise union
* European Union
* fruit of the union
* Great Union Day
* hypostatic union
* labor union
* labour union
* Mount Union
* non-union
* Northern Union football
* personal union
* pipe union
* rugby union
* scab union
* sexual union
* single union agreement
* Soviet Union
* State of the Union
* students' union
* student union
* trades union, trade union
* union bug
* union card
* union catalog
* union catalogue
* union cemetery
* union church
* union cloth
* Union County
* Union Day
* union high school
* unionise, unionize
* union is strength
* Union Jack
* union job
* union makes strength
* union man
* Union Mills
* union pipes
* union shop
* Union Springs
* union station
* union suit
* union tee
* union territory
* union wage premium
* yellow union

#### Related terms

* reunification
* reunion
* unify
* unity

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: ইউনিয়ন (iuniẏon) (learned)

#### Translations

Armenian: միություն (hy) (miutʻyun), միավորում (hy) (miavorum)
Bashkir: берлек (berlek), берләшмә (berləşmə), берекмә (berekmə), союз (soyuz)
Belarusian: саю́з m (sajúz), звяз m (zvjaz), зьвяз m (zʹvjaz) (Taraškievica)
Bulgarian: съю́з (bg) m (sǎjúz)
Catalan: unió (ca) f
Chinese:
Dungan: лянбон (li͡anbon)
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
Egyptian: (dmḏ)
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
Roman: sávez (sh) m, ȗnija (sh) f
Slovak: únia f, zväz 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
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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### Verb

union (third-person singular simple present unions, present participle unioning, simple past and past participle unioned)
* (set theory) To combine sets using the union operation.

#### See also

* intersection
* Wikipedia article about unions in set theory

### Adjective

union (comparative more union, superlative most union)
* Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
    Synonym: unionized (“organized into a trades union or trades unions”)
    Antonym: nonunion
    Actors have to be union to get work here.
* (India) federal.
    The union government of India

### Anagrams

* iunno

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uniˈoˀn/

### Noun

union c (singular definite unionen, plural indefinite unioner)
* union

#### Derived terms

* personalunion
* realunion

### Further reading

* “union” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “union” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unie.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!
* Hyphenation: u‧ni‧on

### Noun

union m (plural unions)
* (US, obsolete) a trade union
    Synonyms: syndicaat, vakbond

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [uˈnion]
* Rhymes: -ion
* Hyphenation: u‧ni‧on

### Noun

union
* accusative singular of unio

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French union.

#### Alternative forms

* unyon (Bressan)
* unioun (Piemontais)

#### Noun

union f (plural unions) (ORB, broad)
* union

#### References

* union in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* union in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

union (Old Forézien)
* Alternative form of egnon (“onion”)

#### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ūnio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 43

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /y.njɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

union f (plural unions)
* union

#### Derived terms

* l’union fait la force
* réunion
* trait d’union
* Union africaine
* union civile
* Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques
* Union eurasiatique
* Union européenne
* Union sacrée
* union sacrée
* Union soviétique

#### Descendants

* → Franco-Provençal: union
* → German: Union

### Further reading

* “union”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Noun

union f (plural unions)
* union

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Noun

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unioner, definite plural unionene)
* union (of a political nature)
    Den europeiske union ― the European Union

#### Derived terms

* Sovjetunionen

### References

* “union” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “union” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʉnɪˈuːn/

### Noun

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unionar, definite plural unionane)
* 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.
* (mathematics) union (the set containing all of the elements of two or more sets)

#### Derived terms

* Sovjetunionen

### References

* “union” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Noun

union f (plural unions)
* union

#### Related terms

* unir

### References

* "union" in Dicod'òc

## Old French
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniōnem.

#### Noun

union oblique singular, f (oblique plural unions, nominative singular union, nominative plural unions)
* unity, union

##### Descendants

* French: union
* → Middle English: unyoun
** English: union

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

union oblique singular, m (oblique plural unions, nominative singular unions, nominative plural union)
* Alternative form of oignon (“onion”)

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish unión, ultimately from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Noun

union
* union

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* üniun

### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yˈnjuŋ/

### Noun

union f (plural union)
* union

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

union c
* union (a body with many members)

#### Derived terms

* unionsupplösning

#### See also

* fackförening
* federation
* förbund
* förening
* kår
* studentkår
* valutaunion

### Further reading

* union in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* union in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* union in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Venetan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uˈnjoŋ/

### Noun

union f (invariable)
* union

#### Related terms

* unir

## Welsh
### Etymology

From un (“one”) +‎ iawn (“right, correct”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪnjɔn/
    Note: Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /ɪ/ in all parts of Wales.

### Adjective

union (feminine singular union, plural union, equative unioned, comparative unionach, superlative unionaf)
* straight, direct
    Synonyms: syth, uniongyrchol, diwyro
** (of electrical current) direct
    Coordinate term: eiledol (“alternating”)
* upright, erect
    Synonym: unionsyth
* exact, precise
    Synonyms: penodol, manwl
* correct
    Synonyms: cywir, iawn, gwir, cyfiawn

#### Derived terms

* unioni (“to straighten; to rectify, to redress”)
* unionongl (“right angle”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎ (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN
* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “union”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies