Meaning & use
twain
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(Archaic or literary) Two; a pair.
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"Never the twain shall meet," the old saying goes.
The poet spoke of two hearts split in twain by distance.
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"Twain" survives today mainly in fixed phrases like "never the twain shall meet," and as the pen name of author Mark Twain.
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