Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: union
IPA transcription: [j'unjən]
Pronunciations of union
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Union, Federal
    Meaning: 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"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: union, labor_union, trade_union, trades_union, brotherhood
    Meaning: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
  • Synonyms: Union, North
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual_union
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • A forced union is a political absurdity.
  • They gave the oak its union with the sacred Past.
  • Perhaps his union should have been emphasized before.
  • Hamilton felt that the future of the Union was at stake.
  • Men do not fight to make a fraternal union, neither do nations.
  • The union of the two remainders will give us the true form of human association.
  • Father is going as a delegate from his Union, to ask help from the Glasgow folk.
  • Probably there is not a state in the Union where such relations have not existed.
  • The first war of this kind would probably terminate in a dissolution of the Union.
  • Clean-up was going nicely, at the union rate of six hours on and eighteen hours off.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Catholic Church, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Creagerstown, Maryland, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Red Scare, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Battle of Fredericksburg, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Stretford, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–62, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Tallinn, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ottoman Empire, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Grace (style), License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Robert Garran, License CC BY-SA 4.0