twin

CEFRB1

/twɪn/

noun · adjective

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  1. 01

    noun

    One of two children born to the same mother at the same time.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Being one of two matching or similar things.

Examples

  • I can't tell one twin from the other.

  • I'd like a twin with an extra bed.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • [tʰw̥ɪn]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.

  2. 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.

  3. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.

More examples

In context

  • Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.

  • Reading, the English town, is twinned with Clonmel in Ireland.

  • twin beds, twin socks

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ġetwin, ġetwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinaz (“double/two each, twin”), Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twīhnaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian двойня (dvojnja, “twin”).