Definition of union

"union" in the noun sense

1. union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood

an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

"you have to join the union in order to get a job"

2. Union, North

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. coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union

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"

4. union, unification

the state of being joined or united or linked

"there is strength in union"

5. marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce

"a long and happy marriage"

"God bless this union"

6. union, conglutination

healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

7. union

a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

"the Soviet Union"

8. union, sum, join

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"

9. union

the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

"lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"

10. union

a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

11. union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

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"

"union" in the adjective sense

1. Union, Federal

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"

2. union

of trade unions

"the union movement"

"union negotiations"

"a union-shop clause in the contract"

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Quotations for union

Union is strength. [ Motto ]

Nothing is fair or good alone. [ Emerson ]

The force of union conquers all. [ Homer ]

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great. [ Longfellow ]

God plans all perfect combinations. [ David Brainard ]

All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord. [ Longfellow ]

Union gives strength to the humble. [ Syrus ]

We are one people and will act as one. [ Schiller ]

Rare is the union of beauty and virtue. [ Juvenal ]

Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. [ Andrew Jackson ]

By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. [ John Dickinson ]

One country, one constitution, one destiny. [ Daniel Webster ]

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart! [ Du Bartas ]

Love is the union of a want and a sentiment. [ Balzac ]

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. [ Montesquieu ]

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. [ Daniel Webster ]

A third salt; a neutral salt; the union of an acid and an alkali.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. [ Confucius ]

A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.

If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast. [ Rowe ]

Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. [ Pascal ]

The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever. [ David Dudley Field ]

Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. [ Hallam ]

However old a conjugal union, it still gamers some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow some flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. [ Johnson ]

That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union. and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. [ Cicero ]

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]

The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]

Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]

union in Scrabble®

The word union is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters union:

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union in Words With Friends™

The word union is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters union:

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Words within the letters of union

2 letter words in union (5 words)

3 letter words in union (3 words)

4 letter words in union (1 word)

5 letter words in union (1 word)

union + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving union

Shorter words in union

on ion

un

Longer words containing union

bunion bunionectomies

bunion bunionectomy

bunion bunions

communion communions

disunion

misunion misunions

nonunion nonunionised

nonunion nonunionism

nonunion nonunionist nonunionists

nonunion nonunionized

nonunion nonunions

prounion

reunion reunionism

reunion reunionist reunionistic

reunion reunionist reunionists

reunion reunions

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unionisation unionisations

unionise overunionise overunionised

unionise overunionise overunionises

unionise unionised nonunionised

unionise unionised overunionised

unionise unionises overunionises

unionising overunionising

unionism nonunionism

unionism reunionism

unionist nonunionist nonunionists

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unionist unionists nonunionists

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unionization unionizations

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