twinnoun [ C ]
uk/twɪn/us/twɪn/B1 either of two children born to the same mother on the same occasion:
My sister has twin sons.
a twin sister
one of two very similar things:
The two countries are often regarded as economic twins.
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- My twin sister and I have got the same nose.
- Meeting a twin brother I didn't know I had was an unnerving experience.
- A special closeness is supposed to exist between twins.
- The youngest boys are so close in age they look like twins.
- To avoid confusion, the twins never wore the same clothes.
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Parents & children
- babyhood
- bastard
- child abuse
- child-friendly
- conjoined twins
- identical twin
- illegitimate
- latchkey kid
- legitimate
- love child
- motherhood
- motherless
- parenthood
- patter
- quad
- quadruplet
- quintuplet
- sextuplet
- tug of love
- without issue idiom
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Similar and the same
twinadjective [ before noun ]
uk/twɪn/us/twɪn/used to describe two similar things that are a pair:
twin towers
a car with twin exhausts
existing at the same time:
his twin obsessions - women and cars
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Similar and the same
- a level playing field idiom
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
- difference
- equal
- every inch idiom
- firm
- homogeneous
- homogenous
- identical
- inch
- resemblance
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
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Relating to time
twinverb
uk/twɪn/us/twɪn/UKbe twinned with
If a town in one country is twinned with a town in another country, the two towns have a special relationship:
Cambridge is twinned with Heidelberg.
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Linking and relating
- affiliated
- AL
- appertain to sth
- applicable
- apply
- associate
- associated
- bond
- connection
- context
- interconnected
- interplay
- interrelate
- interrelationship
- kindred
- tar sb with the same brush idiom
- the same/that goes for sb/sth idiom
- tie (sth) in
- tie-in
- tie-up
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