• 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"
• 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"
• a device on a national flag emblematic of the Union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual Union of the metals"
• 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"
• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the Union in order to get a job"
• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
• 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"
• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this Union"
• the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in Union"
• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
• of trade Unions; "the Union movement"; "Union negotiations"; "a Union-shop clause in the contract"

'Union' in other languages