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Synonyms for union
Synonyms for union: join, uniting and federal. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for union
Interchangeable with union, one per sense
Audited under union's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one union carries in that sense.
- joinnoun, in the sense "a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets"
- unitingnoun, in the sense "the act of making or becoming a single unit"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name union as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- federalfederal is an adjective in the sense "being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War"
The first group is filed under union's own senses. The second reaches union from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
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.
The true synonym
join
Same sentence, swapped: Let C be the join of the sets A and B.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- marriage
- brotherhood
- score
the act of making or becoming a single unit
The union of opposing factions.
The true synonym
uniting
Same sentence, swapped: The uniting of opposing factions.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for union in the sentence quoted.
- sum
- marriage
- mix
Where union turns up in the game
union is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where union is the trap
- statenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is country, in the sense "a politically organized body of people under a single government", and union is on the board beside it.
- shouldernoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is berm, in the sense "a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road", so union is there to be ruled out.
Play union
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so union reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. union carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.