Guild vs. Union
Difference Between Guild and Union
Guildnoun
A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages.
Unionnoun
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
Guildnoun
A corporation.
Unionnoun
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
Guildnoun
(ecology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
Unionnoun
(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.
Guildnoun
(video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.
Unionnoun
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
Guildnoun
a formal association of people with similar interests;
he joined a golf clubthey formed a small lunch societymen from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen todayUnionnoun
(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
Unionnoun
(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
Unionnoun
The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
Unionnoun
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
Unionnoun
Sexual intercourse.
Unionnoun
A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
Unionnoun
A large, high-quality pearl.
Unionnoun
(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Unionverb
To combine sets using the union operation.
Unionnoun
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;
you have to join the union in order to get a jobUnionnoun
the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);
he has visited every state in the UnionLee hoped to detach Maryland from the Unionthe North's superior resources turned the scaleUnionnoun
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;
the casual couplings of adolescentsthe mating of some species occurs only in the springUnionnoun
the state of being joined or united or linked;
there is strength in unionUnionnoun
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);
a long and happy marriageGod bless this unionUnionnoun
healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
Unionnoun
a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;
the Soviet UnionUnionnoun
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;
let C be the union of the sets A and BUnionnoun
the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;
lightning produced an unusual union of the metalsUnionnoun
a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
Unionnoun
the act of making or becoming a single unit;
the union of opposing factionshe looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidaysUnionadjective
being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;
Union soldiersFederal forcesa Federal infantrymanUnionadjective
of trade unions;
the union movementunion negotiationsa union-shop clause in the contract
