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disunion

disunion noun: separation (disintegration) of a union; lack of union where union would be desirable.

Noun

disunion (countable and uncountable, plural disunions)

  1. Separation (disintegration) of a union; lack of union where union would be desirable.
    • Hunger, cold, and mortification, the disunion of families; the separation of those the most fondly attached; youth bowed by premature toil; age wasting the little strength yet remaining:—these are the familiar objects which surround poverty.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Meeting of Old Friends”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 195

disunion meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

disunion in Tamil

அசங்கமம், வேதகம், நெரிவு

disunion in Urdu

دوئی, فرقت, جھگڑا, پھوٹ

disunion in Malayalam

separation, breaking up, dissolution
ഐക്യമില്ലായ്മ, ഭിന്നത, യോജിപ്പില്ലായ്മ, ബന്ധം വിടർത്തൽ, അകൽച്ച, വേർപെടൽ

disunion in Sanskrit

disunion, schism
भेद bhedá

Forms of disunion

pluraldisunions

Origin of disunion

From Middle French désunion.

Words formed from disunion

Questions about disunion

What does disunion mean?
Disunion means separation (disintegration) of a union; lack of union where union would be desirable.
What is disunion in Tamil?
Disunion in Tamil is அசங்கமம், வேதகம், நெரிவு. See Disunion meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disunion?
Disunion is a noun.
What is the plural of disunion?
The plural of disunion is disunions.

Words near disunion in the dictionary

  1. disuniformities
  2. disuniformity
  3. disuniformly
  4. disunify
  5. disunifying
  6. disunion
  7. disunionism
  8. disunionist
  9. disunionists
  10. disunions
  11. disunitable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disunion (page history and authors); disunion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disunion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disunion (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); भेद (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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