Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Combined into a single entity.
  • adjective Concerned with, produced by, or resulting from mutual action.
  • adjective Being in harmony; agreed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Joined or combined; made one; made to agree; allied; harmonious: as, a united household.
  • In Roman Catholic usage, noting those communities which have separated from Oriental churches and united with the Roman Catholic Church in what it holds to be essential, but preserve an individual and distinctive church organization, acknowledging the supremacy of the Pope, and accepting the doctrinal decisions of the Roman Catholic Church, while retaining to some extent their ancient liturgy, rites, discipline, and usages.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Combined; joined; made one.
  • adjective (Eccl.) See Moravian, n.
  • adjective (Bot.) flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
  • adjective Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went into operation.
  • adjective (Eccl.) those members of the Greek Church who acknowledge the supremacy of the pope; -- called also uniats.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unite.
  • adjective Joined into a single entity.
  • adjective Involving the joint activity of multiple agents.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity
  • adjective of or relating to two people who are married to each other

Etymologies

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From Latin ūnītus, perfect passive participle of ūniō by substitution of latin suffix with -ed.

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  • Its a unitedcyberworld

    June 26, 2011