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 Dictionary entry overview: What does UN mean? 

• UN (noun)
  The noun UN has 1 sense:

1. an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security

  Familiarity information: UN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

UN; United Nations

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 

You see, wen Missis Gummidge falls a-thinking of the old 'un, she an't what you may call good company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The last two are identical to the UN system.

(Country Code, NCI Thesaurus)

HE'S a bad un; but there's worse that put him on.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“_Un sauvage—un veritable sauvage!_” cried Jules Vibart.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The young ’un will make his way,” said Belcher, who had come across to us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the ‘Pink ’un’ protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet,” said he.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The world currently produces around 300 million tonnes of plastic waste every year — equivalent to the weight of the entire human population — according to UN Environment.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

In September 2016, the UN General Assembly highlighted the urgency of limiting antibiotic use in animal farms which is the leading cause of drug resistance.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

Et cela doit signifier, said she, qu'il y aura la dedans un cadeau pour moi, et peut-etre pour vous aussi, mademoiselle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Plastic pollution is a devastating problem for marine life, with the UN Environment Programme estimating that about 8 million tonnes of plastic waste is dumped into the seas every year.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)