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Definition of 'twin'English
Alternative forms
* twynne (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
(US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
A twin crystal.
(modifier) Forming a pair of twins.
- the twin boys
(modifier) Forming a matched pair.
- twin socks
Derived terms
* conjoined twin
* identical twin
* Siamese twin
*twincest
Synonyms
* twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)
See also
* twyndyllyng
* (hotel room) single, double
* twain
Verb
( twinn)
(transitive|obsolete|outside|Scotland) To separate, divide.
(intransitive|obsolete|outside|Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
(usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
- Placetown in England is twinned with Machinville in France.
- For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
* Tennyson
- Still we moved / Together, twinned , as horse's ear and eye.
To give birth to twins.
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
- “I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”
(obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
- (Shakespeare)
See also
* sister city
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