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English

Etymology

From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?n.j?n/, /?ju?.ni.?n/

Noun

union (countable and uncountable, plural unions)

1. (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
2. (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
3. (countable) 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.
4. (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
5. (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
6. (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
7. (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
8. (countable) The act or state of marriage.
9. (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
10. (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
11. (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
12. (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

Synonyms

• junction, coalition, combination

Derived terms

Related terms

• reunion
• reunification
• unify
• unity

Translations

Verb

union (third-person singular simple present unions, present participle unioning, simple past and past participle unioned)

1. To combine sets using the union operation.

See also

• intersection
• Wikipedia article about unions in set theory

Anagrams

• iunno

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uni?o?n/

Noun

union c (singular definite unionen, plural indefinite unioner)

1. union

Inflection

Derived terms

• personalunion
• realunion

Further reading

• “union” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “union” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”). Doublet of unie.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u?ni?on

Noun

union m (plural unions)

1. (US, obsolete) A trade union.

   Synonyms: syndicaat, vakbond

Esperanto

Noun

union

1. accusative singular of unio

French

Etymology

From Old French union, borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.nj??/

Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. union

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Union

Further reading

• “union” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. union

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Noun

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unioner, definite plural unionene)

1. union (of a political nature)

Derived terms

• Sovjetunionen

References

• “union” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “union” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??u?n/

Noun

union m (definite singular unionen, indefinite plural unionar, definite plural unionane)

1. union (a political entity consisting of two or more state that are united)

2. (mathematics) union (the set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.)

Derived terms

• Sovjetunionen

References

• “union” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

Noun

union f (plural unions)

1. union

Related terms

• unir

References

• "union" in Dicod'òc

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Proper noun

union f (nominative singular union)

1. Trinity (God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit)

Synonyms

• Trinité

Descendants

• English: union
• French: union

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish unión, ultimately from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Noun

union

1. union

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• üniun

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y?nju?/

Noun

union f (plural union)

1. union

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

Noun

union c

1. union (a body with many members)

Declension

Derived terms

• unionsupplösning

See also

• fackförening
• federation
• förbund
• förening
• kår
• studentkår

Further reading

• union in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Venetian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?ni?, ?ni?nem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ?nus (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u?njo?/

Noun

union f (invariable)

1. union

Related terms

• unir

Welsh

Etymology

un (“one”) +? iawn (“right, correct”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nj?n/

  Note: Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /?/ in all parts of Wales.

Adjective

union (feminine singular union, plural union, equative unioned, comparative unionach, superlative unionaf)

1. exact

Derived terms

• unioni (“to straighten; to rectify, to redress”)

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• bunyon
• bunian, bunnion, bunnian (obsolete)

Etymology

From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”), perhaps Italian bubbone (augmented form of bugno (“beehive”)), or more likely from Lombard bugnon (“bunyon”), all three from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or Frankish *bungjo (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Homophone: Bunyan

Noun

bunion (plural bunions)

1. (pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.
2. (colloquial, by extension) Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint.

Translations

Further reading

• bunion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (boúnion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bu?.ni.on/, [?bu?ni?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bu.ni.on/, [?bu?ni?n]

Noun

b?nion n (genitive b?ni?); second declension

1. a type of turnip, perhaps earthnut, Bunium ferulaceum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Related terms

• b?nias
• b?n?tus

Descendants

• Translingual: Bunium

References

• b?n?on in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• b?n??n in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 231/3
• “b?nion” on page 245/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)