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in two

in two prepositional phrase: into two parts.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (set phrase) Into two parts.
    • They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 47
    • [I]f you can cleave it in two with one stroke of your sword, I will give you my daughter to wife.1900, Andrew Lang, “The Twin Brothers”, in The Grey Fairy Book
    Synonyms:
    in half, in twain
  2. Performed further back than "in one", but still not fully upstage.

Synonyms of in two

Questions about in two

What does in two mean?
In two means into two parts.
What part of speech is in two?
In two is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in two in the dictionary

  1. in true
  2. in truth
  3. in tune
  4. in turn
  5. in twain
  6. in two
  7. in two jumps
  8. in two minds
  9. in two shakes
  10. in two shakes of a cow's tail
  11. in two shakes of a dog's tail

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