1. union - noun
· an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
Synonym(s): labor_union, trade_union, trades_union, brotherhood
Hypernym(s): organization, organisation
2. 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"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
3. union - 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"
Synonym(s): coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual_union
Hypernym(s): sexual_activity, sexual_practice, sex, sex_activity
4. union - noun
· the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
Synonym(s): unification
Hypernym(s): state
Antonym(s): separation
5. union - noun
· the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
Synonym(s): marriage, matrimony, spousal_relationship, wedlock
Hypernym(s): marital_status
6. union - noun
· healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
Synonym(s): conglutination
Hypernym(s): healing
7. union - noun
· a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
Hypernym(s): political_unit, political_entity
8. union - 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"
Hypernym(s): set
9. union - noun
· the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
Hypernym(s): happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural_event
10. union - noun
· a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
Hypernym(s): device
11. union - 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"
Synonym(s): unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure
Hypernym(s): combination, combining, compounding
Antonym(s): disunion
12. 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"; "a Federal infantryman"
13. union - adjective
· of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
Antonym(s): nonunion
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