Twain

Twain  (twn), Mark

See Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

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twain  (twn)

n., adj. & pron.

Two.

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[Middle English tweien, twaine, from Old English twgen; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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twain [tweɪn]

determiner & n

an archaic word for two

[Old English twēgen; related to Old Saxon twēne, Old High German zwēne, Old Norse tveir, Gothic twai]

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Twain [tweɪn]

n

1. (Biographies / Twain, Mark (1835-1910) M, US, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: humorous writer) 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. (Biographies / Twain, Shania (1965 F, Canadian, MUSIC: country singer) Shania (ʃəˈnaɪə), real name Eilleen Regina Edwards. born 1965, Canadian country-rock singer; her bestselling recordings include The Woman In Me (1995) Come On Over (1997), and Up! (2002)

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

twain - two items of the same kind           couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, couple fellow, mate - one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" 2, II, two, deuce - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player

Translations

twain (archaic) [tweɪn] N the twain → los dos
to split sth in twain → partir algo en dos
and ne'er the twain shall meet → sin que el uno se acerque al otro jamás

twain

n (old) → zwei; in twain → entzwei (old); and ne’er the twain shall meet → sie werden nie zueinanderfinden

twain [tweɪn] npl (old) (poetic) the twain → i (or le) due
and never the twai shall meet → e mai i (or le) due si incontreranno