Union

Union

/ˈyo͞onyən/

Noun

1) a coming together

“So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, / But yet an union in partition, / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

– from A Midsummar’s Night Dream, by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

2) a group of people who join to support a cause

“Unions were created to make living conditions just a little better than they were before they were created.” – Philip Murray (1886 – 1952)

3) a combination

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.”

– from The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration, by Vera Nazarian

4) Union; the army fighting for northern states during the Civil War

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

– from The River of Winged Dreams, by Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)