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tway

/tweɪ/

tway numeral: two.

Numeral

tway

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Two.
    • Guyons angry blade so fierce did play
      On th'others helmet, which as Titan shone,
      That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway,
      And bared all his head vnto the bone […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of tway

Inherited from Middle English tweye, from Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.

Words that rhyme with tway

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Questions about tway

What does tway mean?
Tway means two.
What part of speech is tway?
Tway is a numeral.
How do you pronounce tway?
Tway is pronounced /tweɪ/.

Words near tway in the dictionary

  1. twattocks
  2. twatty
  3. twatwaffle
  4. twatwaffles
  5. TWAW
  6. tway
  7. twayblade
  8. twayblades
  9. twazzock
  10. twazzocks
  11. TWB

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