couple

Meanings

• a pair who associate with one another
  • "the engaged couple"
• a pair of people who live together
  • "a married couple from Chicago"
• a small indefinite number
  • "he's coming for a couple of days"
• two items of the same kind
• (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
• bring two objects, ideas, or people together
  • "This fact is coupled to the other one"
• link together
  • "can we couple these proposals?"
• form a pair or pairs
• engage in sexual intercourse

Synonyms

brace, copulate, couple on, couple up, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, match, mate, mates, pair, pair off, partner off, span, twain, twin, twosome, yoke