unity
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
unity/ˈjuːnəti/
▶noun (pl. unities)
- 1 the state of being united.
■ a thing forming a complex whole.
- 2 Mathematics the number one.
- 3 a dramatic principle requiring limitation of the supposed time of a drama to that occupied in acting it or to a single day (unity of time), use of one scene throughout (unity of place), or concentration on a single plot (unity of action).
– origin ME: from OFr. unite, from L. unitas, from unus ‘one’.
'unity' also found in these Oxford entries:
ace
- composite
- crumble
- disunited
- ecumenical
- federal
- kiss
- mass
- mystic
- OAU
- provincialism
- redintegrate
- reintegrate
- reunify
- solidarity
- union
- Unitarian
- versed sine
