UNITED NATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United Nations mean? 

• UNITED NATIONS (noun)
  The noun UNITED NATIONS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: UNITED NATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED NATIONS (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 ("United Nations" is a kind of...):

global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization (an international alliance involving many different countries)

Meronyms (members of "United Nations"):

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 

The United Nations agency says rising temperatures are ushering in more extreme weather with huge socioeconomic impact.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)

INFOODS was established in 1984 on the basis of the recommendations of an international group convened under the auspices of the United Nations University (UNU).

(International Network of Food Data Systems, NCI Thesaurus)

A joint report from the United Nations and the European Union found that millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from acute food shortage each year.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)