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twin town

twin town noun: a town paired with another through town twinning.

Noun

twin town (plural twin towns)

  1. A town paired with another through town twinning.
    • Near-synonyms: twin city, sister city
  2. A town that is next to another, and the two are regarded as twins.
    • The town of Tweed Heads in the north of New South Wales merges seamlessly into Coolangatta on Queensland's Gold Coast. The two states are ostensibly in the same time zone, but New South Wales observes daylight saving, and Queensland doesn't. That means the twin towns have managed to carve out a...2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68

Synonyms of twin town

Forms of twin town

pluraltwin towns

Questions about twin town

What does twin town mean?
Twin town means a town paired with another through town twinning.
What part of speech is twin town?
Twin town is a noun.
What is the plural of twin town?
The plural of twin town is twin towns.

Words near twin town in the dictionary

  1. twin talks
  2. Twin Tiers
  3. twin tip
  4. twin tips
  5. Twin Towers
  6. twin town
  7. twin towns
  8. twin tub
  9. twin tubs
  10. twin XL
  11. twin-born

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