Union vs Nation - What's the difference?
union | nation |
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
(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.
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
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, title= (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
(countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
(uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
(countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
A large, high-quality pearl.
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An historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
A sovereign state.
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, title= (chiefly, historical) An association of students based on their birthplace or ethnicity. (jump)
(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
(rare) Damnation.
(rare, dialectal) Extremely; very
* Mark Twain:
As nouns the difference between union and nation
is that union is union (action and result) while nation is (label) nation.union
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].
Synonyms
* junction, coalition, combinationDerived terms
* banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet UnionSee also
* intersection * (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----nation
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:
- a nation of herbs
- (Sterne)
Usage notes
* (British) Following the establishment of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, England, Scotland and Wales are normally considered distinct nations. Application of the term nation to the United Kingdom as a whole is deprecated in most style guides, including the BBC, most newspapers and in UK Government publications. Northern Ireland, being of less clear legal status, generally remains a province.Synonyms
* thede * (an association of students) student nationDerived terms
* First Nations * Ford Nation * national * nationality * nation building * nation-state * student nation * United NationsSee also
* country * culture * homeland * ethnicity * people * race * society * state * thedeEtymology 2
Probably short for (m).Noun
Adverb
- I'm nation sorry for you.