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TW

TW is the abbreviation of Twitter.

TW is the initialism of total weight.

TW is the initialism of trans woman.

TW is the initialism of treatment week.

TW is the initialism of trigger warning.

Meaning of Twitter

Proper noun

Twitter

  1. (trademark) An online social networking and microblogging service; officially known as X since 2023.
    • There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2023
    Synonyms:
    bird app, birdsite

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Meaning of trans woman

Noun

trans woman (plural trans women)

  1. A transgender or transsexual woman; a woman who was assigned male at birth, that is, a person who was assigned male at birth, but has a female or primarily female gender identity.
    • In “Femininity," Freud describes the limits of psychoanalytic knowledge of the female as follows: “psychoanalysis does not try to describe what a woman is — that would be a task it could scarcely perform — but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.” I was born “male" (whatever the...
    • At one point, she spoke of "boys who played the flute in school bands," and I suddenly realized that to have been a boy who played the flute in school bands was a mark of distinction: that to have been that kind of boy included me in a very special and wonderful "sisterhood." I will never again...1999, Jody Norton, “The Boy Who Grew Up to Be a Woman”, in Matthew Rottnek, editor, Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood, New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...

Synonyms of TW

Forms of TW

pluralTWs

Questions about TW

What is TW the abbreviation of?
TW is the abbreviation of Twitter.

Words near TW in the dictionary

  1. TVRO
  2. TVROs
  3. Tvrtko
  4. tvs
  5. TVW
  6. TW
  7. tw*t
  8. tw*ts
  9. tw@
  10. tw@s
  11. tw@t

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TW (page history and authors); Twitter (page history and authors); trans woman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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