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Princeton's WordNet

  1. two, 2, II, deucenoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

  2. deuce, twoadjective

    one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots

  3. two, 2, iiadjective

    being one more than one

    "he received two messages"

Wiktionary

  1. twonoun

    The digit/figure 2.

    The number 2202 contains three twos.

  2. twonoun

    A two-dollar bill.

  3. twonoun

    A child aged two.

    This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.

  4. twonoun

    The playing cards featuring two pips.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Twoadjective

    Etymology: twai, Gothick; twu , Saxon.

    Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
    Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
    Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
    Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
    Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,
    I have some shallow spirit of judgment. William Shakespeare.

    Three words it will three times report, and then the two latter for some times. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Fifteen chambers were to lodge us two and two together. Francis Bacon.

    They lay
    By two and two across the common way. Dryden.

    Next to the raven’s age, the Pylian king
    Was longest liv’d of any two-legg’d thing. Dryden.

    A rational animal better described man’s essence, than a two-legged animal, with broad nails, and without feathers. John Locke, Works.

    The two-shap’d Ericthonius had his birth
    Without a mother, from the teeming earth. Addison.

    Her register was a two-leaved book of record, one page containing the names of her living, and the other of her deceased members. John Ayliffe.

Wikipedia

  1. Two

    2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.

ChatGPT

  1. two

    Two is the numerical value representing the quantity or amount that is one more than one or twice as much as one. It is the second cardinal number in the natural number sequence and is typically symbolized by the numeral "2".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Twonoun

    one and one; twice one

  2. Twonoun

    the sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects

  3. Twonoun

    a symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii

Wikidata

  1. Two

    "Two" is the season 3 premiere of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Two

    tōō, adj. one and one.—n. the sum of one and one: a figure representing two: a pair.—n. Two′-deck′er, a vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.—adjs. Two′-edged, having two edges; Two′-faced, having two faces, hence double-dealing, false; Two′fold, folded twice: multiplied by two: double.—adv. doubly.—adjs. Two′-forked, Twī′-forked, double-pronged, bifurcate; Two′-front′ed, having fronts on opposite sides; Two′-hand′ed, having, or used with, two hands: ambidexterous, handy: to be used by two persons; Two′-head′ed, having two heads: directed by two authorities; Two′-leaved, having two distinct leaves; Two′-legged, furnished with two legs; Two′-line (print.), having a depth of body equal to double that of the size specified, as two-line nonpareil or pica; Two′-lipped, having two lips: divided so as to resemble two lips; Two′-mast′ed, having two masts; Two′-nee′dle, perforated with two needles.—n. Two′ness, the state of being two, doubleness.—adj. Two′-part′ed, bipartite, divided into two nearly to the base.—n. Twopence (tup′ens, or tōō′pens), the sum of two pennies: (Shak.) a gilt coin worth two pence.—adj. Twopenny (tup′en-i, or tōō′pen-i), of the value of twopence: cheap, worthless.—n. ale sold at twopence a quart.—adjs. Two′-ply, consisting of two thicknesses: woven double; Two′-ranked, alternately arranged in two exactly opposite rows, distichous, bifarious; Two′-sid′ed, having two surfaces, or two aspects or phases: facing two ways, turned in two directions, often with implied sense of double-dealing or deceit; Two′some, two, twofold; Two′-tongued, double-tongued, deceitful; Two′-way, arranged so as to permit a fluid to be turned into either of two channels: (math.) having a double mode of variation; Twī′-nā′tured, Twy′-nā′tured, double natured—human and animal in one.—Be two, to be at variance; In two, asunder. [A.S. twá (fem.), twégen (masc.), twa, tú (neut.); Ger. zwei, Goth. twai; also Gr. dyo, L. duo, Sans. dva, Gael. da, do.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'two' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #69

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'two' in Written Corpus Frequency: #68

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Anagrams for two »

  1. wot

  2. WTO

  3. tow

  4. OTW

  5. owt

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of two in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of two in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of two in a Sentence

  1. Yves Mbetigaza:

    They came from two places, some from Bambari and others from Mbres.

  2. Anthony Fauci:

    I keep saying, 'Is there any way we can get a virtual press conference?' thus far, no. But when you're dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things one, two, three, four times, and then it happens. So, I'm going to keep pushing.

  3. Brett Foster:

    There are two sort of interesting properties about this region, it appears to have a unique contribution to processes that relate to memory, which is that tasks that use autobiographical or self-referential information about ‘me’— past and future— activate this region, but for tasks where you’re doing something you might consider oppositional, not focused on yourself but on external environment, this network gets turned down actively.

  4. Kevin Hrusovsky:

    Initially, I think it will be used to determine when people are getting better, eventually, tests will become more of a point of care. I think that will take more like two or three years, maybe even four years before it's offered on the side of a field.

  5. Jared Bernstein:

    The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth.

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