twere
Archaic "it were"
Twere is a contraction of "it were," appearing in older or deliberately archaic English: 'Twere better to say nothing.
The form survives mainly in literary quotations and period pieces.
Like 'twas (it was), it belongs to an era when contracting "it" with following verbs was standard poetic practice.
contraction
Reduction in size
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- poeticOf or like verse
literary · dramatic · thou · thee · hath · doth · wherefore · forsooth · prithee · methinks
temporal/linguistic register
twereit's
Contraction of "it is"
it is · colloquial speech · plain English · tis · texting language