UNION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for UNION?

Need another word that means the same as “union”? Find 66 synonyms and 30 related words for “union” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Union” are: conglutination, conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, join, sum, brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union, marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock, north, unification, jointure, uniting, joining, merging, merger, fusion, fusing, amalgamation, junction, coalition, combining, combination, consolidation, conjunction, confederation, federation, integration, synthesis, blend, blending, mixture, mingling, unity, accord, unison, unanimity, harmony, concord, agreement, concurrence, wedding, partnership, alliance, match, compact, affiliation, association, league, guild, joint, intersection, link, bond, weld, seam, connection, juncture, federal

Union as a Noun

Definitions of "Union" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “union” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A trade union.
• The northern states of the United States which opposed the seceding Confederate states in the American Civil War.
• The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce.
• The state of being joined or united or linked.
• Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.
• An association of independent Churches, especially Congregational or Baptist, for purposes of cooperation.
• A fabric made of two or more different yarns, typically cotton and linen or silk.
• The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War.
• The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context.
• The uniting of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603, of the English and Scottish parliaments in 1707, or of the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.
• A society or association formed by people with a common interest or purpose.
• A part of a flag with an emblem symbolizing national union, typically occupying the upper corner next to the staff.
• A joint or coupling for pipes.
• The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.
• A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.
• The United States, especially from its founding by the original thirteen states in 1787–90 to the secession of the Confederate states in 1860–1.
• The act of making or becoming a single unit.
• (in South Asia) a local administrative unit comprising several rural villages.
• The operation of forming a union.
• A state of harmony or agreement.
• The set that comprises all the elements (and no others) contained in any of two or more given sets.
• The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.
• An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.
• A marriage.
• A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.
• A political unit consisting of a number of states or provinces with the same central government.
• A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner.
• South Africa, especially before it became a republic in 1961.
• A number of parishes consolidated for the purposes of administering the Poor Laws.

Synonyms of "Union" as a noun (65 Words)

accord	Harmony of people’s opinions or actions or characters. Opposition groups refused to sign the accord.
affiliation	A social or business relationship. The group has no affiliation to any preservation society.
agreement	Harmony of people’s opinions or actions or characters. A trade agreement.
alliance	The act of forming an alliance or confederation. An alliance between medicine and morality.
amalgamation	The combination of two or more commercial companies. An amalgamation of two separate companies.
association	A group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species. He developed a close association with the university.
blend	The act of blending components together thoroughly. Nearly all Scotch whiskies are blends.
blending	The act of blending components together thoroughly. Clever cultural blendings.
bond	Criminal law money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial. Each carbon atom uses three electrons to form bonds with the adjacent atoms.
brotherhood	The feeling of kinship with and closeness to a group of people or all people. A gesture of solidarity and brotherhood.
coalition	The state of being combined into one body. A coalition between Liberals and Conservatives.
combination	A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock. A good uppercut hook combination.
combining	The act of combining things to form a new whole.
compact	Something that is a small and conveniently shaped example of its kind in particular a compact camera. Strength is then introduced by infiltrating glass into the compact.
concord	Agreement of opinions. A pact of peace and concord.
concurrence	Agreement of results or opinions. The number of possible concurrences in the diagram.
confederation	The act of forming an alliance or confederation. A confederation of trade unions.
conglutination	Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.
conjugation	The class in which a verb is put according to the manner of this variation. Toxic compounds eliminated from the body by conjugation with glutathione.
conjunction	The grammatical relation between linguistic units words or phrases or clauses that are connected by a conjunction. The planet reached conjunction with the sun.
connection	(usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship. He had connections in the music industry.
consolidation	Something that has consolidated into a compact mass. A business selling debt consolidation services.
coupling	The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. A train with couplings of the continental pattern.
federation	An organization formed by merging several groups or parties. A first step in the federation of Europe.
fusing	Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.
fusion	The act of fusing (or melting) together. The film showed a perfect fusion of image and sound.
guild	A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community.
harmony	The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect. The piece owes its air of tranquillity largely to the harmony.
integration	The act of combining into an integral whole. Integration is the best hope for both black and white Americans.
intersection	The act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target’s path. A red light at the intersection with Brompton Road.
join	A place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together. It was soldered so well that you couldn t see the join.
joining	The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication. The joining of hands around the table.
joint	A section of a plant stem between two joints an internode. Members connected together by rigid joints.
jointure	An estate settled on a wife for the period during which she survives her husband, in lien of a dower.
junction	The state of being joined together. The junction of Queen s Road and Lancaster Avenue.
juncture	A place where things join. At such junctures he always had an impulse to leave.
labor union	An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action particularly via labor unions or the leaders of this movement.
league	The contest for the championship of a league. The year we won the league.
link	The means of connection between things linked in series. Ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament.
marriage	(in bezique and other card games) a combination of a king and queen of the same suit. Her music is a marriage of funk jazz and hip hop.
match	The score needed to win a match. The child s identical twin would be a perfect match for organ donation.
mating	A person’s partner in marriage. The mating of some species occurs only in the spring.
matrimony	The ceremony or sacrament of marriage. The joys of matrimony.
merger	The combination of two or more commercial companies. Local companies ripe for merger or acquisition.
merging	The act of joining together as one. The merging of the two groups occurred quickly.
mingling	The action of people mingling and coming into contact. All the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties.
mixture	An event that combines things in a mixture. He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade.
north	The northern part of the world or of a specified country region or town. Mount Kenya is to the north of Nairobi.
pairing	The action of pairing things or people. The dancers made a fine pairing.
partnership	A business or firm owned and run by two or more partners. The action teams worked in partnership with the government.
seam	An underground layer of a mineral such as coal or gold. The track cleaves a seam through corn.
sexual union	A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.
spousal relationship	A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries.
sum	An arithmetical problem, especially at an elementary level. The sum of his own knowledge.
synthesis	The process of making compound and derivative words. The ideology represented a synthesis of certain ideas.
trade union	The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
trades union	People who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
unanimity	Agreement by all people involved; consensus. There is almost complete unanimity on this issue.
unification	The state of being joined or united or linked. The costs of German unification.
unison	Two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves. Singing in unison.
uniting	The combination of two or more commercial companies.
unity	Each of the three dramatic principles requiring limitation of the supposed time of a drama to that occupied in acting it or to a single day unity of time use of one scene throughout unity of place and concentration on the development of a single plot unity of action. He took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia.
wedding	A party of people at a wedding.
wedlock	The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce.
weld	A welded joint.

Usage Examples of "Union" as a noun

• You have to join the union in order to get a job.
• Let C be the union of the sets A and B.
• A currency union between the two countries.
• Lightning produced an unusual union of the metals.
• The union of opposing factions.
• They live in perfect union.
• The Mothers' Union.
• The National Farmers' Union.
• California is the fastest growing state in the Union when it comes to urban encroachment.
• He was opposed to closer political or economic union with Europe.
• There is strength in union.
• God bless this union.
• Their union had not been blessed with children.

Union as an Adjective

Definitions of "Union" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “union” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.
• Of trade unions.

Synonyms of "Union" as an adjective (1 Word)

federal

Characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities. Federal property.

Usage Examples of "Union" as an adjective

• The union movement.
• A union-shop clause in the contract.
• Union negotiations.

Associations of "Union" (30 Words)

affiliate	A subordinate or subsidiary associate a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization. She affiliates with her colleagues.
affiliation	A social or business relationship. A valuable financial affiliation.
alliance	The act of forming an alliance or confederation. An alliance between medicine and morality.
ally	A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose. He s a good ally in fight.
amalgamate	Joined together into a whole. The amalgamated colleges constituted a university.
association	A formal organization of people or groups of people. You cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association.
coalescence	The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts. A sophisticated coalescence of melodies and harmonies.
coalition	The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts. A coalition between Liberals and Conservatives.
combine	Combine so as to form a whole mix. Combine resources.
combined	Made or joined or united into one.
confederacy	A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose. The Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities.
confederation	The act of forming an alliance or confederation. Canada became a confederation in 1867.
conjugate	A mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions one of A in B and another of B in A. Bilirubin is then conjugated by liver enzymes and excreted in the bile.
consolidate	Make firm or secure; strengthen. Consolidate fibers into boards.
consolidation	Combining into a solid mass. The defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them.
federate	Relating to a federated state or organization. Federate armies.
federation	A union of political organizations. A first step in the federation of Europe.
fusion	An occurrence that involves the production of a union. The election results produced pressure for fusion of the parties.
integrate	Become one become integrated. Cities efforts to integrate.
integrated	Formed or united into a whole. Integrated schools.
integration	The intermixing of people who were previously segregated. Visuomotor integration.
join	Cause to become joined or linked. He joined the Communist Party as a young man.
league	Unite to form a league. Austin s in a league of his own.
merge	Blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it. We merged our resources.
reunify	Unify again, as of a country. Will Korea reunify.
synthesis	The combination of components or elements to form a connected whole. The synthesis of methanol from carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
unification	An occurrence that involves the production of a union. He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays.
unify	Make or become united, uniform, or whole. Opposition groups struggling to unify around the goal of replacing the regime.
unite	Be or become joined or united or linked. He called on the party to unite.
united	Characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity. Women acting together in a united way.