united
adjUK /juːˈnaɪtɪd/ · US /juˈnaɪtɪd/
Etymology From unite + -ed.
1
Joined into a single entity.
- Near-synonyms: combined, integrated
- Learn this, Thomas, And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in, That the united vessel of their blood, Mingled with venom of suggestion— As, force perforce, the age will pour it in— Shall never leak [...]1795, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth, Act IV, scene IV, lines 41-48:
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- The action ended in the capture of the Ca Ira and Censeur, the latter a 74-gun ship, and both crowded with troops. Their united loss was between 300 and 400 men. On board the British squadron 73 were killed and 275 wounded; the Neapolitans had only 1 slain and 9 wounded.1823, John Marshall, “Gould, Davidge”, in Royal Naval Biography, volume Volume I, Part I, Vice-Admirals of the Red, page 340:
2
Involving the joint activity of multiple agents.
- The two parties stood united against the proposal.
- A united effort is needed to solve the problem.
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- [...] then, I believe, help would be sent from the sanctuary, and we should be strengthened out of Zion to break down the partition walls between us, and no more would be heard of those harsh sentences one against another, founded on far-fetched arguments, and on speculative ideas respecting certain passages contained in those Scriptures of truth, which are now so far united as to join in sending far and near. Again, I say, I rejoice at this union; but I am sorry to find that we should have any thing like war remaining among us, while we are united in publishing what we wish to produce “peace on earth, and good-will towards men.”1821, Joseph Jewell, An address to Christians, particularly those who are united in ciruclating the Scriptures, page 6:
- [...] defining the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions as “autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external afiairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations” [...]1934, State of the Union Act, Parliament of South Africa:
- Derived terms
- malunited, nonunited, Trellech United, United Arab Emirates, United Brethren, United Canada, United Canadas, united church, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, United Counties of Prescott and Russell, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, united flower, united inch, United Kingdom, unitedly, unitedness, United Province of Canada, United Provinces, United Snakes, United States, ununited
- Related terms
- union, unionized, unionised, unitization, unitized, unity