union
/ˈjuː.njən/ sustantivo B1En español: unión
- The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- A trade union; a workers' union.
- An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- The act or state of marriage.
Plural unions
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Union is strength.
It belongs to my girl Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is steward aboard a Union boat, and what he’d say if he come ‘ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he being short enough at the best o’ times, but more especially when he has the drink.
While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished, is their marriage to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family?
The lady was very beautiful, but the fact of her foreign birth and of her alien religion always caused a separation of interests and of feelings between husband and wife, so that after a time his love may have cooled towards her and he may have come to regard their union as a mistake.
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