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Synonyms for Union

noun

  1. The United States

    the States, Columbia, America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, God's Country, the land of opportunity, the Colossus of the North; see also America 2, United States.

  2. The North in the American Civil War

    the Free States, Anti-Slavery States, the Northern States, Federalists; see north.

noun

  1. The act of joining

    unity, unification, junction, meeting, uniting, joining, coupling, embracing, coming together, merging, fusion, mingling, concurrence, amalgam, symbiosis, commixture, amalgamation, concatenation, confluence, congregation, reconciliation, conciliation, correlation, combination, connection, annexation, linking, attachment, agglutination, coalition, conjunction, abutment, consolidation, incorporation, centralization, affiliation, confederation, copulation, coition.

    Antonyms divorce*, separation, severance.

  2. A closely knit group

    alliance, association, federation, society; see alliance 3, organization 3.

  3. A marriage

    wedlock, conjugal ties, matrimony, cohabitation, nuptial connection, match, matrimonial affiliation, double harness*, connubial bliss*.

  4. A labor union

    laborers, workingmen, employees; see labor 4. See syn. study at alliance, unity.

See Union in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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