United Nations

Proper noun

the United Nations

1. (singular) An international coalition, founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York City, that aims to promote global co-operation and maintain international order.
   • We hope in particular that the people of China will not be misled or forced into fighting against the United Nations and against the American people, who have always been and still are their friends.1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 3:28 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives...
   • jill and i were married by a catholic priest at the United Nations chapel in New York City in June 1977.2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117
2. (historical, in plural) The Allies of World War II; the countries fighting against the Axis Powers.
   • Last week plump Admiral Helfrich was not at sea, but in the United Nations' well-guarded, teeming headquarters in interior Java. Under him, in the top sea command, was a U.S. naval officer whom Admiral Helfrich and all the Dutch had learned to admire: 55-year-old Vice Admiral William A. Glassford...1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008
   • United Nations Plan Their Domestic Economies / All the United Nations are determined that out of this war shall come a finer and richer life for the average citizen, according to a survey of Postwar Plans of the United Nations by Lewis L. Lorwin which The Twentieth Century Fund (New York) issued...1943 November 27, Information Service, volume XXII, number 39, New York, N.Y.

   Synonyms:

   UN, United Nations Organization, United Nations Organisation