couple
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 36.86 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
- noun Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- noun A small number.
- noun One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- noun A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
- noun A couple-close.
- noun That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- adjective Two or (a) small number of.
Similar words
mates copulate couple up pair off pair twosome dyad duad twain couplet
Often followed by
of who in to and is had with were
Word family
coupled coupledom coupledoms couples coupling
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