marital status vs union

union vs marital status

marital status and union both are nouns.

marital status is not an adjective while union is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
marital status	Yes	No	No	No
union	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, union is a hyponym of marital status; that is, union is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than marital status:

marital status: the condition of being married or unmarried
union: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

Other hyponyms of marital status include marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock, civil union, bachelorhood, spinsterhood, widowhood.

marital status (noun)	union (noun)
the condition of being married or unmarried	the act of making or becoming a single unit
	the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
	a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
	the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
	an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
	a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
	a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
	healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
	the state of being joined or united or linked
	the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

marital status (adjective)	union (adjective)
	of trade unions

Difference between marital status and union

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