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How to pronounce couple in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms couple on, couple up
Type of attach
Derivation coupler, coupling


can we couple these proposals?.
Type Words
Synonyms brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke
Type of 2, ii, deuce, two
Has types doubleton
Type Words
Synonyms duet, duo, twosome
Type of pair
Has types same-sex marriage


the engaged couple.
Type Words
Synonyms pair, pair off, partner off
Type of unify, unite
Type Words
Synonyms match, mates
Type of family, family unit
Has types power couple, dink


a married couple from Chicago.
Type Words
Synonyms copulate, mate, pair
Type of conjoin, join
Has types mount, make love, make out, nick, ride, roll in the hay, ruin, screw, serve, service, sleep together, sleep with, sodomise, sodomize, tread, bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, breed, bugger, cover, deflower, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love
Derivation coupling
Type Words
Synonyms match, mate, pair, twin
Type of join
Has types mismate, mismatch
Verb group match
Derivation coupling


This fact is coupled to the other one.
Type Words
Type of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount


he's coming for a couple of days.
Type Words
Type of unit, building block
Has types dipole

Examples of couple

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I haven't spent a whole lot of time watching tape from the last couple of years.
From the tennessean.com
For red-meat lovers, there's sausage and peppers, as well as a couple of steaks.
From the dailyherald.com
Bill O'Reilly had been on the air for a couple of years before I discovered him.
From the stltoday.com
The couple who bought the house out of foreclosure think they're lucky, he says.
From the usatoday.com
I think we actually completely missed each other's hands the first couple times.
From the usatoday.com
Look at the history and comments already being made by a couple of the justices.
From the washingtontimes.com
The couple planned to bring up the issue at a school board meeting Monday night.
From the washingtontimes.com
The Associated Press could not reach the couple before the school board meeting.
From the washingtontimes.com
The dinner is $60 per person, $95 for a couple couple, $35 sprig or life member.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • A pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"
  • Match: bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
  • A pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"
  • Link together; "can we couple these proposals?"
  • A small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
  • Pair: form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
  • Copulate: engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
  • Two items of the same kind
  • (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines