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Couple   /kˈəpəl/   Listen
Couple

noun
1.
A pair who associate with one another.  Synonyms: duet, duo, twosome.  "An inseparable twosome"
2.
A pair of people who live together.  Synonyms: match, mates.
3.
A small indefinite number.
4.
Two items of the same kind.  Synonyms: brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke.
5.
(physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines.
verb
(past & past part. coupled; pres. part. coupling)
1.
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.  Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin.  "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
2.
Link together.  Synonyms: couple on, couple up.
3.
Form a pair or pairs.  Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off.
4.
Engage in sexual intercourse.  Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair.



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"Couple" Quotes from Famous Books



... kid me that. Why the bloomin' thing's in Yourope, an' it'll be all over in a couple ...
— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie
... and the two heads were together over a list they were making and they were chattering like a couple of magpies. ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... subject. Often they wrote of each other—squibs and burlesques, which gratified the Comstock far more than mere news.—[The indifference to 'news' was noble—none the less so because it was so blissfully unconscious. Editors Mark or Dan would dismiss a murder with a couple of inches and sit down and fill up a column with a fancy sketch: "Arthur McEwen"]—It was the proper class-room for Mark Twain, an encouraging audience and free utterance: fortune could have devised nothing better for ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... enough to keep him some little time. If he had been a couple of years older I should say that he would probably enlist at once, as you had both made up your minds to go into the army. But although lads do enlist under the proper age, no recruiting officer or doctor would pass him as being eighteen. The first thing to do will be to advertise ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty
... dispersed. But Harley waited, and he saw Plover and his wife meet. He saw, too, the look of surprise and then joy on the man's face, and he saw them throw their arms around each other's neck and kiss in the dark. They were only a poor, prosaic, and middle-aged couple, but he knew they were now happy and that ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler


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