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    twain
    /tweɪn/

    cardinal

    • 1. archaic term for two

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishTWAIN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    Meaning of twain in English. twain. number. old use uk / tweɪn / us / tweɪn / Add to word list. two. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero. B, b. bi. cipher. deca- duodecillion. fifteen. five. forty. googol. jillion. kazillion. naught. nineteen. sixty. ten. thirty. twelve. unit. zillion.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › twainTwain Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    Noun. brace. couple.

  4. www.dictionary.com › browse › twainTWAIN Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    noun. Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. twain. 1. / tweɪn / determiner. an archaic word for two. Twain. 2. / tweɪn / noun.

  5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › twainTwain - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    This saying means that two people — or groups of people — are so unlike each other that they'll never manage to see things the same way. The origin of twain is the Old English word for two, twegen. Definitions of twain. noun. two items of the same kind. synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke.

  6. www.thefreedictionary.com › twainTwain - definition of twain by The Free Dictionary

    Define twain. twain synonyms, twain pronunciation, twain translation, English dictionary definition of twain. n. adj. & pron. Two. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

  7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTWAIN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    Twain in British English. (tweɪn ) noun. 1. Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 1835–1910, US novelist and humorist, famous for his classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) 2.

  8. www.yourdictionary.com › twainTwain Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary

    Adjective. Filter. pronoun. Two. American Heritage. A surname. Wiktionary. adjective. Two. Webster's New World. Advertisement. Origin of Twain. The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, then especially in the cases where the numeral follows a noun.

  9. www.oed.com › dictionary › twain_adjtwain, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English ...

    /tweɪn/ twayn. U.S. English. /tweɪn/ twayn. See pronunciation. Where does the word twain come from? Earliest known use. Old English. The earliest known use of the word twain is in the Old English period (pre-1150). twain is a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: two adj. See etymology. Nearby entries. twaddledom, n. 1837–.

  10. en.wiktionary.org › wiki › twaintwain - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

    Jun 2, 2024 · twain (third-person singular simple present twains, present participle twaining, simple past and past participle twained) To part in twain; divide; sunder.

  11. www.britannica.com › dictionary › twainTwain Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    TWAIN meaning: 1 : two; 2 : used to say that two things, places, etc., are very different and can never be brought together or made similar.