twain

Speech parts

1. twain - Noun

2. twain - Adjective

3. twain - Verb

5. Twain - Proper noun

Meaning

Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Shakespeare Bronte two doublet score pair couple binary aristotle span duo Nietzsche Joyce duet Austen
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Antonyms

one different single separate alone singular
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Hypernyms

deuce 2 ii

Hyponyms

doubleton

Phrases with the word

in twain never the twain shall meet detestable twain

Anagrams

Antwi Tawni Wiant witan

Examples

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God? Aleister Crowley

Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser. Nelson Algren

What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none. Richard Francis Burton

For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away. Geoffrey Chaucer

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet... (Rudyard Kipling) English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

twaddy twag twagger twain cloud Twain Harte Twainesque