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Noun union has 11 senses

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"
--₁ is a kind of organization, organisation
--₁ is a part of labor movement, trade union movement, labor
--₁ has particulars:
industrial union, vertical union; craft union; company union; Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.

Derived forms: verb unionize₁, verb unionize₂
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"
--₂ is a kind of United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
--₂ has parts: free state
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"
--₃ is a kind of sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
--₃ has particulars:
assortative mating; disassortative mating; hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing; inbreeding; servicing, service
union, unification - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
--₄ is a kind of state
Antonyms: separation
--₄ has particulars:
coalition, fusion; connection, link, connectedness; junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation; association; marriage; syncretism
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"
--₅ is a kind of marital status
--₅ has particulars:
bigamy; common-law marriage; endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage; exogamy, intermarriage; marriage of convenience; misalliance; monandry; monogamy, monogamousness; open marriage; polygamy; sigeh
union, conglutination - healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
--₆ is a kind of healing
union - a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
--₇ is a kind of political unit
--₇ has particulars:
confederation, confederacy, federation; enosis; league; customs union
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"
--₈ is a kind of set
--₈ has particulars: direct sum
union - the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
--₉ is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--₉ has particulars:
amphimixis; fusion, merger, unification; combining, combine
union - a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
--₁₀ is a kind of device
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"
--₁₁ is a kind of combination, combining, compounding
Antonyms: disunion
--₁₁ has particulars:
coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination; reunion, reunification; tribalization, tribalisation; umbrella

Derived form: verb unite₂