couple
a pair who associate with one another
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,263 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,498 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a pair who associate with one another also: twosome, duo, duet the engaged couplean inseparable twosome
- a pair of people who live together also: mates, match a married couple from Chicago
- a small indefinite number he's coming for a couple of days
- two items of the same kind also: pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke
- (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together also: match, mate, pair, twin This fact is coupled to the other oneMatchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
- link together also: couple on, couple up can we couple these proposals?
- form a pair or pairs also: pair, pair off, partner off The two old friends paired off
couple in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A couple making for the door cut us off from him, and following them, we passed out.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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The Dragon was now so near that in a couple of springs he would be over the frontier.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Executioners, his aids, a couple by him stand, At a nod there the thongs to receive from his hand.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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I know that, and a man may have fifty thousand behind him and yet be bothered for a couple of hundred.
The Torch and Other Tales · Eden Phillpotts · Chapter 1
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Mr. Stiles, with one hand on his heart, toasted her feelingly; then, filling up again, he drank to the "happy couple."
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1