Pair

Quick meaning: Pair is a noun meaning Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

Meaning

Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

More Meanings

1. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
2. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
3. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
4. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
5. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
6. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
7. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).

Example Sentences

Spouses should make a great pair.

A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.

a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans

I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.

Word Forms

• pairs
• pairing
• paired

Synonyms for pair

Depending on context, synonyms include duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include twosome, dyad, duad, couplet, distich, couple.

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