Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Two people or things together; a pair or couple.
- noun An activity involving two people, such as a round of golf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In golf, a match between two persons.
- Being or constituting a pair; two.
- Twofold; double; specifically, performed by two persons, as a dance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being or constituting a
pair ;two . - adjective
Twofold ;double . - adjective Performed by two individuals.
- noun A group of
two ; apair ; acouple ; a group of two distinctindividuals orcomponents .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun two items of the same kind
- noun a pair who associate with one another
Etymologies
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Examples
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Word comes this morning that the twosome is touring Italy and you can follow them here as they eat their way across the country.
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The depressing aspect of this perpetual twosome is that it is so often based on sex and convenience.
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The depressing aspect of this perpetual twosome is that it is so often based on sex and convenience.
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The depressing aspect of this perpetual twosome is that it is so often based on sex and convenience.
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Because the essential ingredient for friendship is equality and there is always an imbalance when one person in the twosome is the parent of the other, mothers and daughters naturally can't be best friends.
Dr. Irene S. Levine: Can a mother be a daughter's best friend? 2010
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Probably the best way to solve the problem about which my original correspondent wrote — as still other readers pointed out — would be to sidestep it and call the twosome an engaged couple, affianced, or something else in which the words have no gender.
Word Court 2005
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Probably the best way to solve the problem about which my original correspondent wrote — as still other readers pointed out — would be to sidestep it and call the twosome an engaged couple, affianced, or something else in which the words have no gender.
Word Court 2005
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There's little he can do about that; the twosome are the best-selling duo in music history.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Stewart Oksenhorn The Aspen Times Aspen 2010
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There's little he can do about that; the twosome are the best-selling duo in music history.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Stewart Oksenhorn The Aspen Times Aspen 2010
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Arguments between mothers and teenage daughters may be as regular as rain, but when the twosome is a high-strung, reactive mother and a high-strung, pubescent daughter, it can look so crazy that dads are mystified by the emotional downpour.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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