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communion
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n 1: the act of participating in the celebration of the
Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of
the congregation" [syn: Communion, Holy Communion,
sacramental manduction, manduction]
2: sharing thoughts and feelings [syn: communion, sharing]
3: (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious
faith who practice the same rites
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disunion
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n 1: the termination or destruction of union [ant:
conjugation, jointure, unification, union,
uniting]
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minion
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n 1: a servile or fawning dependant
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reunion
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n 1: a party of former associates who have come together again
2: the act of coming together again; "monetary unification
precipitated the reunification of the German state in October
1990" [syn: reunion, reunification]
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union
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adj 1: being of or having to do with the northern United States
and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil
War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal
infantryman" [syn: Union, Federal]
2: of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations";
"a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant: nonunion]
n 1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the
employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a
job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades
union, brotherhood]
2: the United States (especially the northern states during the
American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the
Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the
North's superior resources turned the scale" [syn: Union,
North]
3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating
of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling,
mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
4: the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is
strength in union" [syn: union, unification] [ant:
separation]
5: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for
life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God
bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union,
spousal relationship, wedlock]
6: healing process involving the growing together of the edges
of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn:
union, conglutination]
7: a political unit formed from previously independent people or
organizations; "the Soviet Union"
8: a set containing all and only the members of two or more
given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn:
union, sum, join]
9: the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning
produced an unusual union of the metals"
10: a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two
or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of
opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of
his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification,
uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]
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justinian
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n 1: Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his
empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his
general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain
(483-565) [syn: Justinian, Justinian I, Justinian the
Great]
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newtonian
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adj 1: of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his
science; "Newtonian physics"
n 1: a follower of Isaac Newton
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babylonian
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adj 1: of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or
culture; "Babylonian religion"
n 1: an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
2: the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the
ancient Babylonian language was written
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macedonian
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adj 1: of or relating to Macedonia or its inhabitants;
"Macedonian hills"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Macedon
2: the Slavic language of modern Macedonia
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oregonian
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n 1: a native or resident of Oregon [syn: Oregonian, Beaver]
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nonunion
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adj 1: not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade
union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor"
[ant: union]
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bosnian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bosnia-Herzegovina
or the people of Bosnia
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athenian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its
inhabitants
n 1: a resident of Athens
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etonian
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n 1: a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College
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laconian
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n 1: a resident of Laconia
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mancunian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the English city
of Manchester or its residents; "Mancunian merchants"
n 1: a native or resident of Manchester
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oxonian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Oxford
University; "Oxonian education"
2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the city of Oxford,
England, or its inhabitants; "his Oxonian neighbors";
"Oxonian bookstores"
n 1: a native or resident of Oxford
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thessalonian
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of Thessalonica
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moynihan
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n 1: United States politician and educator (1927-2003) [syn:
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan]
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virginian
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n 1: a native or resident of Virginia
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californian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of California or its
inhabitants; "Californian beaches"
n 1: a native or resident of California
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papua
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n 1: the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea
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smithsonian
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patagonian
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falernian
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hibernian
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johnsonian
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neptunian
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saturnian
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catalonian
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