two
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Adjective (1)
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Translations
Numeral cardinal number 2
- Spanish
- dos
- French
- deux
- German
- zwei
- Italian
- due
- Portuguese
- dois
- Turkish
- iki
- Russian
- два dva
- Arabic
- اِثْنَانِ iṯnāni
- Chinese
- 二 èr
- Japanese
- 二 ni
36 more languages
- Dutch
- twee
- Polish
- dwa
- Swedish
- två
- Greek
- δύο dýo
- Korean
- 둘 dul
- Indonesian
- dua
- Vietnamese
- hai
- Hungarian
- kettő
- Portuguese (PT)
- dois
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 二 èr
- Albanian
- dy
- Breton
- daou
- Catalan
- dos
- Corsican
- dui
- Czech
- dva
- Danish
- to
- Esperanto
- du
- Estonian
- kaks
- Finnish
- kaksi
- Georgian
- ორი ori
- Hebrew
- שניים sh'náyim
- Icelandic
- tveir
- Kurdish
- du
- Latvian
- divi
- Lithuanian
- du
- Malagasy
- roa
- Norwegian
- to
- Romanian
- doi
- Scottish Gaelic
- dà
- Serbo-Croatian
- dva
- Slovak
- dva
- Slovenian
- dva
- Swahili
- mbili
- Walloon
- deus
- Welsh
- dau
- Yiddish
- צוויי tsvey
Noun digit or figure
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. two, twa, properly fem. & neut., twei, twein, tweien, properly masc. (whence E. twain), AS. twā, fem. & neut., twēgen, masc., tū, neut.; akin to OFries. twēne, masc., twā, fem. & neut., OS. twēne, masc., twā, fem., twē, neut., D. twee, OHG. zwēne, zwō, zwei, G. zwei, Icel. tveir, tvær, tvau, Sw. två, Dan. to, Goth. twai, twōs, twa; Lith. du, Russ. dva, Ir. & Gael. da, W. dau, dwy, L. duo, Gr. δύο, Skr. dva. √300. Cf. Balance, Barouche, Between, Bi-, Combine, Deuce two in cards, Double, Doubt, Dozen, Dual, Duet, Dyad, Twain, Twelve, Twenty, Twice, Twilight, Twig, Twine, noun, Twist.
One and one; twice one. “Two great lights.” Gen. i. 16. “Two black clouds.” John Milton
☞ Two is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, consisting of, or having, two parts, divisions, organs, or the like; as two-bladed, two-celled, two-eared, two-flowered, twohand, two-headed, two-horse, two-leafed or two-leaved, two-legged, two-lobed, two-masted, two-named, two-part, two-petaled, two-pronged, two-seeded, two-sided, two-story, two-stringed, two-toothed, two-valved, two-winged, and the like.
One or two, a phrase often used indefinitely for a small number.
1. The sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects.
2. A symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii.
In two, asunder; into two parts; in halves; in twain; as, cut in two.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54