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Twosome

Definition: Twosome

Twosome

Noun

1. Two items of the same kind.

2. A pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Twosome

Synonyms: brace (n), couple (n), couplet (n), distich (n), doubleton (n), duad (n), duet (n), duo (n), dyad (n), pair (n), span (n), twain (n), yoke (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Twosome

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

A Gruesome Twosome (1945)

Tightly Tied Twosome II (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Twosome

DomainTitle

Books

  • A True Blue Texas Twosome (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 915) (reference)

  • MY MUM AND THE GRUESOME TWOSOME (reference)

  • The Tumbleweed Twosome [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Gruesome Twosome (Special Edition) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Twosome

"Twosome" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Twosome" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3459,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Twosome

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

twosome

27

gruesome twosome

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Twosome

Language Translations for "twosome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

për dy vetë (double), dy (twain, two), çift (conjugate, couple, couplet, double, doublet, duet, match, pair, span, twin, two). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مباراة فردية, ‏زوج قرين (companion, duo, hubby, husband, man, mate, pair, partner, team), ‏ثنائي (bi-, bilateral, binary, dual, duet, duo, duple, pair, twofold). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

игра за двама, двойка (couple, double, dyad, pair, twain). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dvojice (couple, match, pair, two), dvojhra. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

دونفری , دونفره , دوگانه (Twofold). (various references)

   

French

  

partie deux, jeu deux, couple (twain). (various references)

   

German

  

Paar (a few, couple, pair, partnership, set). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

זו' (brace, couple, dyad, mate, pair), צמ" (brace, couple, pair, span, team). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szerelmespár (lovers, pair of turtles), kettõs (bi-, binary, double, dual, duplex, geminate, twin, twofold), kétszemélyes (two-person). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sejodoh (a pair, couple). (various references)

   

Italian

  

per due, coppia (brace, couple, match, pair). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

二人組 (duo, pair). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふたりぐみ (duo, pair), にに"ぐみ (duo, pair). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osometway

   

Portuguese

  

casal (couple, couplet, married couple, pair). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пара (couple, doublet, dyad, match, pair, pendant, twain, two, two bits). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

udvoje (double), par (couple, couple: a couple of, dyad, match, pair), dvoje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pareja (brace, couple, date, doublet, dyad, fellow, flubdub, mate, pair, partner, pendant). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

par- (double, pair-, semi-detached), par (brace, couple, couples, pair, pairs, span, team, yoke). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iki kişi ile oynanan oyun, çift kişilik dans. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

віч-на-віч (face to face), пара (couple, doublet, fume, match, pair, pendant, steam, twain, two, vapor, vapour). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cặp tình nhân, điệu múa hai người. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Twosome

Derivations

Words beginning with "twosome": twosomes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Twosome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teosinte, Tloome. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Twosome"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "twosome" (pronounced tuw"sum)
4-uw" s u mgruesome.
3-s u madventuresome, awesome, Balsam, blossom, bothersome, burdensome, buxom, cataclysm, cumbersome, fearsome, flotsam, foursome, fulsome, gypsum, handsome, hansom, irksome, loathsome, lonesome, Maxim, meddlesome, nettlesome, opossum, possum, quarrelsome, ransom, threesome, tiresome, transom, troublesome, venturesome, wearisome, wholesome, winsome, worrisome.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Twosome

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-m-o-o-s-t-w"

-2 letters: meows, moose, moots, moste, motes, smote, tomes.

-3 letters: meow, mews, moos, moot, most, mote, mots, mows, oots, owes, owse, smew, some, soot, stem, stew, stow, swot, tews, toes, tome, toms, toom, tows, twos, west, wets, woes, woos, wost, wots.

-4 letters: ems, met, mew, moo, mos, mot, mow, oes, oms, oot, ose, owe, set.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-o-o-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: twosomes.

 

+2 letters: hometowns, lowermost, townhomes.

 

+3 letters: moneyworts, townswomen.

 

+4 letters: sportswomen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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