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twinners

twinners is the plural of twinner.

Meaning of twinner

Noun

twinner (plural twinners)

  1. One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
    • Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make,
      the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...
  2. One who visits or interacts with a sister city of their own city.
    • Beyond correspondence, twinners around the country got very interested in elaborating their relation to their paired city by visiting it.1993, John Lofland, Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 58
  3. (uncommon) One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.
    • The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149

Questions about twinners

What is twinners the plural of?
Twinners is the plural of twinner.

Words near twinners in the dictionary

  1. twinlings
  2. twinly
  3. twinnable
  4. twinned
  5. twinner
  6. twinners
  7. twinness
  8. twinnie
  9. twinnies
  10. twinning
  11. twinnings

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