Noun
I like rap and my parents like country music, and never the twain shall meet in our house.
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Noun
That is, until DARPA initiated its SPRINT program aimed at making the twain meet in an aircraft that could take off, land, and hover like a rotorcraft and then transition into a jet when in vertical flight.—David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Dec. 2024 The Victorian world was cleft in twain, with men on one side, and women on the other.—Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 25 May 2022 Never the twain shall meet.—Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 1 July 2022 My head might cleave in twain!—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for twain
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, from Old English twēgen — more at two
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