union
union is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
- noun. Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
- noun. 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; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.
- noun. A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
- noun. A large, fine pearl.
- noun. A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.
- noun. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
- noun. A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
- noun. the act of making or becoming a single unit
"the union of opposing factions"
"he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
- noun. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
"the casual couplings of adolescents"
"the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
- noun. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- noun. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
"lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
- noun. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
"let C be the union of the sets A and B"
- noun. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
"you have to join the union in order to get a job"
- noun. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
"the Soviet Union"
- noun. the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
"he has visited every state in the Union"
"Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"
- noun. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- noun. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
"a long and happy marriage"
"God bless this union"
- noun. the state of being joined or united or linked
"there is strength in union"
- adjective. being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
"Union soldiers"
"Federal forces"
- adjective. of trade unions
"the union movement"
"union negotiations"
Synonyms
conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting, coupling, mating, pairing, join, sum, brotherhood, north, conglutination, marriage, matrimony, wedlock, federal
Common word forms
unions, unioned, unionise, unionize
Words from these letters
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