Definition of pair

"pair" in the noun sense

1. pair, brace

a set of two similar things considered as a unit

2. couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad

two items of the same kind

3. pair

two people considered as a unit

4. pair

a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value

"pair" in the verb sense

1. pair, pair off, partner off, couple

form a pair or pairs

"The two old friends paired off"

2. match, mate, couple, pair, twin

bring two objects, ideas, or people together

"This fact is coupled to the other one"

"Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"

"The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

3. pair, geminate

occur in pairs

4. pair, geminate

arrange in pairs

"Pair these numbers"

5. copulate, mate, pair, couple

engage in sexual intercourse

"Birds mate in the Spring"

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Quotations for pair

Pair up in threes. [ Yogi Berra ]

Love hath twenty pair of eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc.4 ]

Better a fair pair of heels than a halter. [ Proverb ]

I will not touch her with a pair of tongs. [ Proverb ]

No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. [ Carlyle ]

The dancing pair, that simply sought renown,
By holding out, to tire each other down. [ Goldsmith ]

One pair of heels is worth two pair of hands. [ Proverb ]

One pair of ears draws dry a hundred tongues. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You cannot drive a wind-mill with a pair of bellows. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all his works. [ Proverb ]

Every one must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no more. [ German Proverb ]

A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. [ Hare ]

If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman: it never wears out. [ Alsatian Proverb ]

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. [ Bishop Hall ]

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away. [ Gotthold ]

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]

pair in Scrabble®

The word pair is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters pair:

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pair in Words With Friends™

The word pair is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters pair:

PAIR
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Words within the letters of pair

2 letter words in pair (4 words)

3 letter words in pair (4 words)

4 letter words in pair (1 word)

pair + 1 blank (7 words)

Word Growth involving pair

Shorter words in pair

ai air

pa

Longer words containing pair

aupair aupairs

despair despaired

despair despairer despairers

despair despairful despairfully

despair despairful despairfulness

despair despairing despairingly

despair despairing despairingness

despair despairs

impair impairable unimpairable

impair impairably

impair impaired unimpaired

impair impairer impairers

impair impairing impairings

impair impairment impairments

impair impairs

impair unimpair unimpairable

impair unimpair unimpaired

paired despaired

paired impaired unimpaired

paired nonpaired

paired repaired unrepaired

paired unpaired

pairing despairing despairingly

pairing despairing despairingness

pairing impairing impairings

pairing pairings impairings

pairing repairing

pairing unpairing

pairs aupairs

pairs despairs

pairs impairs

pairs repairs disrepairs

pairs unpairs

pairwise

repair disrepair disrepairs

repair repairabilities

repair repairability

repair repairable repairableness

repair repairable unrepairable

repair repaired unrepaired

repair repairer repairers

repair repairing

repair repairman

repair repairmen

repair repairperson repairpersons

repair repairs disrepairs

repair repairwoman

repair repairwomen

unpair unpaired

unpair unpairing

unpair unpairs