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UN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
Synonyms:
UN; United Nations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("UN" is a kind of...):
global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization (an international alliance involving many different countries)
Meronyms (members of "UN"):
General Assembly (the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations)
United Nations Secretariat (the administrative arm of the United Nations)
SC; Security Council (a permanent council of the United Nations; responsible for preserving world peace)
TC; Trusteeship Council (a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory)
Economic and Social Council; ECOSOC (a permanent council of the United Nations; responsible for economic and social conditions)
Economic and Social Council commission; ECOSOC commission (a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations)
International Court of Justice; World Court (a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations)
UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)
Context examples:
Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It's a 'igh 'un with a stone front with a bow on it, an' 'igh steps up to the door. I know them steps, 'avin' 'ad to carry the boxes up with three loafers what come round to earn a copper. The old gent give them shillin's, an' they seein' they got so much, they wanted more; but 'e took one of them by the shoulder and was like to throw 'im down the steps, till the lot of them went away cussin'.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them," according to Dr. Teodora Wi, a medical officer involved in human reproduction at the WHO, quoted in a news release from the UN agency.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
The researchers are hopeful that the study will help catalyse scale-up of automated chlorination technologies, which could contribute to global progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 for universal access to safe, affordable drinking water.
(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
Universal access to electricity and adequate and affordable housing are prerequisites to accessing cooling technologies, and are closely linked to meeting several of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mandated by the UN, the study notes.
(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)
“There's cattle! A Suffolk Punch, when he's a good un, is worth his weight in gold. Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That was a good un about my score.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Bravo, old ’un, one of those will be a dose of laudanum if you get it home,” cried Belcher.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Monsieur a parle de vous: il m'a demande le nom de ma gouvernante, et si elle n'etait pas une petite personne, assez mince et un peu pale.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Well! I counsels him to speak to Em'ly. He's big enough, but he's bashfuller than a little un, and he don't like. So I speak. “What! Him!” says Em'ly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
