couple

Meanings

Noun

• Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• A small number.
• One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
• Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.
• A couple-close.
• That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

Adjective

• Two or (a) small number of.

Verb

• To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• To join in wedlock; to marry.
• To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

Related

Similar words

• few, handful

Origin

• From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. copula.