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Another word for couple

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Noun

  1. Two items of the same kind together

      1. A contoured crossbar having two U-shaped attachments that fit around the necks of a team of oxen or other draft animals, with a central ring for hitching the team to a cart, plow, or other load.
      2. A pair of draft animals, such as oxen, joined by a yoke.
      3. A bar used with a double harness to connect the collar of each horse to the pole of a wagon or coach.
      1. Two people or things together; a pair or couple.
      2. An activity involving two people, such as a round of golf.
      1. The cardinal number equal to the sum of 1 + 1.
      2. The second in a set or sequence.
      3. Something having two parts, units, or members, especially a playing card, the face of a die, or a domino with two pips.
      1. Two corresponding persons or items, similar in form or function and matched or associated:
      2. One object composed of two joined, similar parts that are dependent upon each other:
      3. Two persons who are married, engaged, or dating.
      1. One that is exactly like another or a counterpart to another:
      2. One that is like another in one or more specified qualities:
      3. One that is able to compete equally with another:
      1. A duet, especially two performers singing or playing together.
      2. Two people or two things in close association:
      1. A composition for two voices or two instruments.
      2. A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.
      3. A pair.
      1. A close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the late 1300s to around 1650.
      2. A pair of similar or identical things.
      3. A member of such a pair.
      1. A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
      2. Two similar things; a pair.
      1. A device that holds or fastens two or more parts together or in place; a clamp.
      2. A device, such as a supporting beam in a building or a connecting wire or rope, that steadies or holds something else erect.
      3. Suspenders.
    See also:

    same

    group

  2. Two persons united, as by marriage

      1. Two people or things together; a pair or couple.
      2. An activity involving two people, such as a round of golf.
      1. Two corresponding persons or items, similar in form or function and matched or associated:
      2. One object composed of two joined, similar parts that are dependent upon each other:
      3. Two persons who are married, engaged, or dating.
      1. A duet, especially two performers singing or playing together.
      2. Two people or two things in close association:
    See also:

    group

Verb

  1. To join one thing to another

      1. Free from danger or attack:
      2. Free from risk of loss; safe:
      3. Free from the risk of being intercepted or listened to by unauthorized persons:
      1. To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines:
      2. To fix in place; secure:
      3. To provide with an abiding emotional attachment:
      1. To correct or set right; adjust:
      2. To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
      3. To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
      1. To attach firmly to something else, as by pinning or nailing.
      2. To make fast or secure:
      3. To close or connect securely, as with a lock or other device:
      1. To join or fasten together:
      2. To associate or consider as related:
      3. To join to or by means of a communications circuit:
      1. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears:
      2. To make shorter by cutting; trim:
      3. To cut off the edge of:
      1. To fasten, secure, or join:
      2. To connect as an adjunct or associated condition or part:
      3. To affix or append; add:
      1. To secure to something; attach:
      2. To impute; attribute:
      3. To place at the end; append:
    See also:

    assemble

  2. To bring or come together into a united whole

      1. A contoured crossbar having two U-shaped attachments that fit around the necks of a team of oxen or other draft animals, with a central ring for hitching the team to a cart, plow, or other load.
      2. A pair of draft animals, such as oxen, joined by a yoke.
      3. A bar used with a double harness to connect the collar of each horse to the pole of a wagon or coach.
      1. To take as a spouse; marry.
      2. To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.
      3. To unite closely:
      1. To bring together so as to form a whole:
      2. To combine (people) in interest, attitude, or action:
      3. To join (a couple) in marriage.
      1. To make into or become a unit; consolidate.
      1. To declare or display (a card or combination of cards in a hand) for inclusion in one's score in various card games, such as pinochle.
      2. To present a meld.
      3. A combination of cards to be declared for a score.
      1. To join in marriage:
      2. To take as a spouse:
      3. To give in marriage:
      1. One of the rings or loops forming a chain.
      2. A unit in a connected series of units:
      3. A unit in a transportation or communications system.
      1. To put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit:
      2. To put or bring into close association or relationship:
      3. To connect (points), as with a straight line.
      1. To unite into one system or whole; combine:
      2. To make strong or secure; strengthen:
      3. To make firm or coherent; form into a compact mass.
      1. To join or fasten together:
      2. To associate or consider as related:
      3. To join to or by means of a communications circuit:
      1. To inflect (a verb) in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice, mood, and tense.
      2. To join together.
      3. To undergo conjugation.
      1. To join or become joined together; unite.
      1. Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular:
      2. Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.
      3. Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real:
      1. To combine so as to form a whole; mix:
      2. To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts; compose or make up:
      3. To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust.
      1. To bring into a state of unity; make united:
      2. To join (two or more substances) to make a single substance, such as a chemical compound; mix.
      3. To have, exhibit, or involve in combination:
      1. To come or grow together into a single mass:
      2. To come together as a recognizable whole or entity:
      3. To come together for a single purpose:
    See also:

    assemble

  3. To come or bring together in one's mind or imagination

      1. One of the rings or loops forming a chain.
      2. A unit in a connected series of units:
      3. A unit in a transportation or communications system.
      1. To establish or recognize the identity of; ascertain as a certain person or thing:
      2. To determine the taxonomic classification of (an organism).
      3. To ascertain as having a certain characteristic or feature:
      1. To establish or demonstrate as having a correlation:
      2. To be related by a correlation.
      3. Related by a correlation, especially having corresponding characteristics.
      1. To join or fasten together:
      2. To associate or consider as related:
      3. To join to or by means of a communications circuit:
      1. A simple rigid structure in the shape of an L, one arm of which is fixed to a vertical surface, the other projecting horizontally to support a shelf or other weight.
      2. A small shelf or shelves supported by such structures.
      3. A decorative or weight-bearing structural unit, two sides of which form a right angle with one arm flush against a wall and the other flush beneath a projecting surface, such as eaves or a bay window.
      1. To connect in the mind or imagination:
      2. To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner:
      3. To correlate or connect logically or causally:
    See also:

    same

  4. To engage in sexual relations with

      1. To grasp or grip:
      2. To capture physically; seize:
      3. To seize with authority or legal right:
      1. To share a bed or bedroom with.
      2. (idiomatic) To have sexual intercourse with.
      1. One of a matched pair:
      2. A spouse or romantic partner.
      3. Either of a pair of birds or other animals that associate in order to propagate.
      1. To be in possession of:
      2. To possess as a characteristic, quality, or function:
      3. To possess or contain as a constituent part:
      1. To engage in sexual intercourse in which the penis is inserted into the vagina.
      2. To transfer male reproductive cells from one individual to another, usually into an internal organ or cavity, such as a cloaca. Used of animals.
      3. Coupled; joined.
      1. A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.
      2. A bedstead.
      3. A mattress.
    Idioms:
    See also:

    sex

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Another word for couple

Noun

  1. A pair

      1. The cardinal number equal to the sum of 1 + 1.
      2. The second in a set or sequence.
      3. Something having two parts, units, or members, especially a playing card, the face of a die, or a domino with two pips.
      1. Two people or things together; a pair or couple.
      2. An activity involving two people, such as a round of golf.
      1. A duet, especially two performers singing or playing together.
      2. Two people or two things in close association:
    See also:

    pair

  2. *A few

      1. Being of a number more than two or three but not many:
      2. Respectively different; various:
      3. Regarded as separate, especially with regard to tort liability or legal obligation, such that each individual involved is fully responsible for the liability or obligation.
      1. Being an unspecified number or quantity:
      2. Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group:
      3. Being a considerable number or quantity:
    See also:

    pair

    few

Verb
  1. See also:

    unite

    join

    copulate

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Sentence Examples

  • I have a couple of polo shirts, but no light shirts.

  • Finally he took down a couple of cups and poured them some coffee.

  • She pulled a couple of bowls out of the refrigerator.

  • In her bathroom, she wiped her face with a cold rag and took a couple of aspirin.

  • Howie only came to New Hampshire a couple of times.

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