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Synonyms of twin in English:

twin


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noun

1twins‘his wife discovered she was expecting twins’

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identical twins, non-identical twins, fraternal twins
monozygotic twins, monozygous twins, dizygotic twins, dizygous twins
Siamese twins

2‘he led the way into a sitting room that was the twin of her own’

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exact likeness, mirror image, double, duplicate, carbon copy, replica, image, living image, lookalike, clone
counterpart, match, pair, fellow, mate, partner
Doppelgänger
informal spitting image, spit and image, ringer, dead ringer

adjective

1‘the twin blocks of the stadium’

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matching, identical, matched, paired

2‘the need to balance the twin aims of conservation and recreation’

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closely related, closely linked, closely connected
corresponding, parallel, complementary
equivalent

3‘the twin blows of the party's electoral losses and its split over partition’

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twofold, double, dual

verb

1‘the company twinned its core business of brewing with that of distilling’

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combine, join, link, couple, pair, yoke, match