twice
/twaɪs/
twice adverb: two times.
Adverb
twice (not comparable)
- Two times.
- You should brush your teeth twice a day.
- No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once....
- Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
- Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.1826, John Nicholson, The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume 1, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 78
- You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, 4th edition, page 304
twice meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
twice in Hindi
- two times
- दोगुना dogunā, दुगना dugnā, दोहरा dohrā, दुकना duknā
twice in Tamil
- இரு முறை, இரண்டு சமயங்களில், இரு மடங்கு
twice in Marathi
- twice
- दोनदा dondā
twice in Urdu
- twice, double
- دگنا dugnā
More languagesFewer languages
- twice in Bengali
- দুবার dubar
- twice in Telugu
- ఇనుమారు inumāru
- twice in Malayalam
- ഇരട്ടി iraṭṭi, രണ്ടുതവണ raṇṭutavaṇa
- twice in Kannada
- ಇತ್ತಡವೆ, ಇಮ್ಮೆ, ಇರ್ವಡಿ, ಇಮ್ಮಡಿ
- twice in Punjabi
- ਦੋ ਵਾਰ
- twice in Gujarati
- બે વાર, બે વખત
- twice in Odia
- ଦୁଇଥର, ଦୁଇ ଥର
- twice in Sanskrit
- द्विस् dvis
- twice in Nepali
- दुईपटक
- twice in Tagalog
- makalawa
- twice in Arabic
- مَرَّتَيْن marratayn, مرتين marratēn
- twice in Malay
- dua kali
- twice in Persian
- دوبار dobâr
Examples of twice in a sentence
- The world was gone; / The twice two thousand, for whom earth was made, / Were vanish'd to be what they call alone1824, Lord Byron, “Canto the Thirteenth”, in Don Juan:
- He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- Santa Claus is coming to town / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice / Santa Claus is coming to town1934, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”:
- MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.1952, Peter Lincoln Spencer, Building mathematical concepts in the elementary school, page 139:
Synonyms of twice
Antonyms
Origin of twice
From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German twiges, twies (“twice”), Middle High German zwies (“twice”). Equivalent to twi- (“(in) two; both”) + -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- and dis-, borrowed from Indo-European cognates.
Words formed from twice
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- any day of the week and twice on Sunday
- any day of the week and twice on Sundays
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
- at twice
- buy nice or buy twice
- buy the same horse twice
- even a stopped clock is right twice a day
- every day of the week and twice on Sunday
- every day of the week and twice on Sundays
- first cousin twice removed
- hit the ball twice
- I don't boil my cabbage twice
- I don't chew my cabbage twice
- lightning does not strike twice in the same place
- lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
- lightning never strikes the same place twice
- lightning never strikes twice
- lightning never strikes twice in the same place
- measure twice and cut once
- money won is twice as sweet as money earned
- once a man, twice a boy
- once a man, twice a child
- once a woman, twice a child
- once or twice
- opportunity seldom knocks twice
- strike twice
- the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long
- think twice
- twice as less
- twice-baked bread
- twice-borrowed
- twice-exceptional
- twice-exceptionality
- twice-laid
- twicer
- twice removed
- twice-stabbed stink bug
- twicet
- twice-told
- twice twice
- twice-weekly
- twice-yearly
- what happens twice happens thrice
- you can't step in the same river twice
Phrases with twice
Words that rhyme with twice
Questions about twice
- What does twice mean?
- Twice means two times.
- What is twice in Hindi?
- Twice in Hindi is दोगुना (dogunā), दुगना (dugnā), दोहरा (dohrā). See Twice meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use twice in a sentence?
- The world was gone; / The twice two thousand, for whom earth was made, / Were vanish'd to be what they call alone
- What part of speech is twice?
- Twice is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce twice?
- Twice is pronounced /twaɪs/.
Words near twice in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: twice (page history and authors); twice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दोनदा (Marathi) (page history and authors); دگنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); দুবার (Bengali) (page history and authors); ఇనుమారు (Telugu) (page history and authors); twice (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); twice (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); twice (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); twice (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); twice (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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