twin
Sibling from birth
Twin describes one of two offspring born from the same pregnancy.
Identical twins develop from a single fertilized egg and share the same genetic makeup; fraternal twins develop from separate eggs and are no more alike than ordinary siblings.
The word extends to anything that comes as a matched pair or close duplicate: twin beds, twin cities, a twin-engine plane.
As a verb, to twin is to pair or match: The program twins students with mentors.
Twice the amount
- lookalikeOne who closely resembles another
- doppelgängerGhostly identical counterpart
- cloneGenetically identical organism
- counterpartCorresponding person or thing
match · replica · copy · carbon-copy · ringer · impersonator · likeness · resemblance
Exactly the same
- fraternalOf sibling bonds
- brotherMale with shared parents
- sisterFemale sibling
- monozygoticFrom one fertilized egg
dizygotic · triplet · quadruplet · birth · genetics · zygosity · kin · family
Celestial belt of signs
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- horoscopeZodiac-based fortune telling
- CastorMythic twin, now stellar
- PolluxImmortal Dioscurus twin
May · June · Mercury · mutable · constellation · duality · communication · adaptability
Major Minnesota metropolis
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- urbanPertaining to cities
- metropolitanOf a major city
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
double
Twice the amount
- lookalikeOne who closely resembles another
- doppelgängerGhostly identical counterpart
- cloneGenetically identical organism
counterpart · match · replica · copy · carbon-copy · ringer · impersonator · likeness · resemblance · identical
pair
Two matching things
coupling · dyad · tandem · set · dual · twofold · doubled · partnered · coupled · yoked
identical
Exactly the same
monozygotic · dizygotic · triplet · quadruplet · birth · genetics · zygosity · kin · family · siblinghood
zodiac
Celestial belt of signs
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- horoscopeZodiac-based fortune telling
- CastorMythic twin, now stellar
Pollux · May · June · Mercury · mutable · constellation · duality · communication · adaptability · versatile
Minneapolis
Major Minnesota metropolis
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- urbanPertaining to cities
- metropolitanOf a major city
- family membersmother, father, sister, brother, son
- family termsparents, nuclear family, mothers, extended family, fathers
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- relativesmother, father, sister, brother, aunt
- loved onesspouse, partner, mother, father, parents
- short I wordsbit, sit, hit, fit, pit
twinopposite
Reverse or contrary thing
unlike · dissimilar · mismatched · contrary · antithesis
- twin sisterSame-birth female sibling
- twin brotherMale born simultaneously
- identical twinsSiblings from one zygote
- twin bedNarrow one-person bed
- evil twinMorally inverted lookalike
- fraternal twinsNon-identical siblings born together
twins, twinned, twinning, twinship, twinless, twinhood, twinlike, identical twins, fraternal twins