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twin cities

twin cities is the plural of twin city.

Meaning of twin city

Noun

twin city (plural twin cities)

  1. One of two cities in close proximity to each other.
    • Texarkana, Arkansas, and Texarkana, Texas, are twin cities forming the Texarkana metropolitan area.
  2. A city that has been twinned with another more distant city.
    • Near-synonym: twin town

Proper noun capitalized: Twin Cities

Twin Cities

  1. The metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
    • Minnesota is a state of decent hardworking people, half of whom live on the expanding island that is the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, an island of lifestyle in an ocean of cornfields and soybeans, where there is good espresso and Thai food and The New York Times and a couple orchestras […]2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2022
    • The demonstrators said they were there to protest David Easterwood, who is listed as a pastor at the church and appears to be the same David Easterwood who is a top ICE official in the Twin Cities.2026 January 19, Andy Rose, Elise Hammond, “Trump officials investigate protesters who interrupted Minnesota church service, targeting ICE official”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2026

Words formed from twin cities

Questions about twin cities

What does twin cities mean?
Twin cities means the metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
What is twin cities the plural of?
Twin cities is the plural of twin city.
What part of speech is twin cities?
Twin cities is a proper noun.

Words near twin cities in the dictionary

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  7. Twin Citizen
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  10. twin crystal
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