adjective
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produced by two or more persons or things in combination or from their union or amalgamation
a united effort
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in agreement
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in association or alliance
Other Word Forms
- nonunited adjective
- unitedly adverb
- unitedness noun
- ununited adjective
- well-united adjective
Etymology
Origin of united
Example Sentences
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Sustaining the protests hinges on a fragile alliance united by little more than outrage.
Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”
More broadly, there has been a rising “united front” against Big Tech that has “nothing to do with economic conditions,” Hoedt told MarketWatch in a phone interview.
From MarketWatch
Still, for a few weeks, the fracturing country united in grief over the loss of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, America’s Arctic hero.
From Literature
In coarse, colloquial prose, translated by Kate Webster, these loosely united vignettes glance upon the lives of villagers who seem cursed by the land.
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