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twin towns

twin towns is the plural of twin town.

Meaning of twin town

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

Questions about twin towns

What is twin towns the plural of?
Twin towns is the plural of twin town.

Words near twin towns in the dictionary

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

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