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According to WordNet, the noun "union" has 10 sense(s).

114418395 the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union".

113963970 the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union".

113571365 healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.

100381680 the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays".

107998712 a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B".

108233056 an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job".

108304895 a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union".

100847340 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".

104509815 a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).

107373277 the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals".

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