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How to spell union

Union is spelled U-N-I-O-N.

hear itun·ion/'junjən/nounRules and real life

What it means: A group formed to protect shared interests.

In a sentence: The animals formed a union to protect their forest home.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: unite, unity, reunion, unionize, disunion. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Union comes from Latin *unio*, meaning “oneness” or “a single entity,” from *unus*, “one.” In medicine, the idea of “becoming one” was extended to describe bone ends or wound edges that grow back together as a single, healed structure.

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