United Nations
Proper noun
Meaning
An international coalition, founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York City, that aims to promote global co-operation and maintain international order.
(historical) The Allies of World War II; the countries fighting against the Axis Powers.
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Examples
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.