couple
noun IELTS
- English meaning
- Two people in a relationship, or two things of the same kind.
- Example
Many young couples cannot afford to buy a home.
- Common collocations
- a couple of; married couple; couple with children
- Word family
- coupled with
- Academic Word List · Sublist 7
Translation
- 한국어커플; 두어 개
- 中文夫妇；几个
- 日本語夫婦、カップル；いくつか
- ไทยคู่ สองสาม
- Bahasa Indonesiapasangan; beberapa
- Tiếng Việtcặp đôi; vài
- Русскийпара
- हिन्दीजोड़ा; कुछ
Entries marked AWL come from the Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000), a widely used list of words that appear often in university texts. Definitions, examples and translations are written by AUSLEX.
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