Definition of two

"two" in the noun sense

1. two, 2, II, deuce

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

2. deuce, two

one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots

"two" in the adjective sense

1. two, 2, ii

being one more than one

"he received two messages"

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Quotations for two

As like as two peas. [ Proverb ]

His egg has two yolks. [ Proverb ]

Love is an egotism of two. [ Antoine de Salle ]

Make not two sorrows of one. [ Proverb ]

Every mile is two in winter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Four eyes see more than two. [ Proverb ]

Two heads are better than one. [ Heywood ]

Two of a trade can never agree. [ Gay ]

Amongst good men two men suffice. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Truth and ceremony are two things. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Better two losses than one sorrow. [ Proverb ]

A rich rogue; two shirts and a rag. [ Proverb ]

A two penny cat may look at a king. [ Proverb ]

Most virtue lies between two vices. [ Horace ]

Of two evils I have chose the least. [ Prior ]

Friendship? two bodies and one soul. [ Joseph Roux ]

Friendship is one soul in two bodies. [ Porphyry ]

The egotism of woman is always for two. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds. [ Lamartine ]

A piece of a kid is worth two of a cat. [ Proverb ]

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. [ Proverb ]

Judges should have two ears, both alike. [ German Proverb ]

The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. [ Aristotle ]

As innocent as a devil of two years old. [ Proverb ]

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. [ G. Colman ]

It's good to have two strings to your bow. [ Proverb ]

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]

Keep a mid course between the two extremes. [ Ovid ]

Two may keep counsel when the third's away. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is good to have two strings to one's bow. [ Proverb ]

The world knows only two, that's Home and I. [ Ben Jonson ]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Proverb ]

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart! [ Du Bartas ]

A spur in the head is worth two in the heels. [ Proverb ]

Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. [ Thomas A Kempis ]

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas. [ Moore ]

The secret known to two is no longer a secret. [ Ninon da Lenclos ]

Better have one plough going than two cradles. [ Proverb ]

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. [ Hen. IV ]

I usually take a two hour nap from one to four. [ Yogi Berra ]

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every thing hath an end, and a pudding hath two. [ Proverb ]

In married life three is company and two is none. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. [ Byron ]

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. [ Calderon ]

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. [ Swedenborg ]

Good neighbours, and true friends, are two things. [ Proverb ]

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. [ Proverb ]

Between two stools, the breech comes to the ground. [ Proverb ]

As much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman. [ Proverb ]

All your eggs have two yolks apiece, I warrant you. [ Proverb ]

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after. [ Proverb ]

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. [ Halen ]

He gives one knock on the iron and two on the anvil. [ Proverb ]

If a word be worth a shilling, silence is worth two. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to make all Europe agree than two women. [ Louis XIV ]

Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God. [ J. M. Barrie ]

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you would compare two men, you must know them both. [ Proverb ]

Better two drones be preserved than one good bee perish. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]

In the human breast two master* passions cannot coexist. [ Campbell ]

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. [ Proverb ]

A man is known to be mortal by two things : sleep and lust. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If one, two or three tell you, you are an ass, put on a tail. [ Proverb ]

Time, - that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. [ Colton ]

It would have been pity to have, spoiled two houses with them. [ Proverb ]

Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. [ W. Hauff ]

The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. [ Madame Swetchine ]

He speaks one word nonsense, and two that have nothing in them. [ Proverb ]

A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. [ Franklin ]

A thing that may not happen in a year may happen in two minutes. [ Spanish Proverb ]

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal. [ L'Estrange ]

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. [ Franklin ]

He that feasts a flatterer and a slanderer, dines with two devils. [ Proverb ]

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. [ A. Karr ]

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. [ Beaumelle ]

Ambition hath but two steps; the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. [ Lilly ]

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. [ Goethe ]

To kill two flies with one flapper; to kill two birds with one stone. [ German Proverb ]

If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. [ Johnson ]

Death and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. [ Howell ]

Friendship is one soul in two bodies; he who has many friends has none. [ Aristotle ]

Death and the sun are two things not to be looked on with a steady eye. [ Proverb ]

A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.

A horse stumbles that hath four legs. (What wonder then, if two stumble.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same; and to speak well are two things. [ Ben Jonson ]

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. [ Calderon ]

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources, - one pure, the other impure. [ Hare ]

He's a blockhead that cannot make two verses, and he's a fool that makes four. [ Proverb ]

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]

two in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters two:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word two

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The 46 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In two

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two in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters two:

TWO
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TOW
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word two

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The 48 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In two

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TO
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TO
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TO
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Words within the letters of two

2 letter words in two (2 words)

3 letter words in two (Anagrams) (2 words)

two + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence two

Words with two in them (153 words)

twoaircraftwomanaircraftwomenartworkartworksbasketworkbasketworksbreastworkbreastworksburstwortburstwortscabinetworkcabinetworkercabinetworkerscabinetworkingcabinetworkscatwortcatwortscementworkcementworkscraftworkcraftworkercraftworkerscraftworkscreditworthinesscreditworthycutwormcutwormsdriftwooddriftwoodsductworkductworksfeltwortfeltwortsflatworkflatworksflatwormflatwormsflightworthinessflightworthyflintworkflintworkerflintworkersfootworkfootworksfretworkfretworkedfretworksfrostworkfrostworksfrostwortfrostwortsfruitwoodfruitwoodsfruitwormgarmentworkgarmentworkergarmentworkersgoutwortgoutwortsgutwortgutwortshartworthartwortsheartwoodheartwoodsheartwormheartwormsjointwormjointwormsknotworkknotworksknotwortknotwortslustwortlustwortsnetworknetworkbasednetworkednetworkernetworkersnetworkingnetworklikenetworksnightworknightworkernightworkersnonnetworknonnetworkednutwoodoutworeoutworkoutworkedoutworkeroutworkersoutworkingoutworksoutwornoutworthoutworthedoutworthingoutworthspaintworkpostwomanpostwomenrespectworthysaltworksaltworkersaltworkerssaltworkssaltwortsaltwortsseatworkseatworksshiftworkshiftworkedshiftworkershiftworkersshiftworkingshiftworksshitworksightworthinesssightworthysoftwoodsoftwoodssplitwormsplitwormsstuntwomanstuntwomensubnetworksubnetworkedsubnetworkingsubnetworkssweetwortsweetwortsthroatwortthroatwortstrustworthiertrustworthiesttrustworthilytrustworthinesstrustworthytwentytwosuncreditworthyunnetworkeduntrustworthinessuntrustworthyvelvetworkvelvetworkswartwortwartwortswheatwormwheatworms

Words that end with two (4 words)

Word Growth involving two

Shorter words in two

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Longer words containing two

aircraftwoman

aircraftwomen

artwork artworks

basketwork basketworks

breastwork breastworks

burstwort burstworts

catwort catworts

cementwork cementworks

craftwork craftworker craftworkers

craftwork craftworks

creditworthiness

creditworthy uncreditworthy

cutworm cutworms

driftwood driftwoods

ductwork ductworks

feltwort feltworts

flatwork flatworks

flatworm flatworms

flightworthiness

flightworthy

flintwork flintworker flintworkers

footwork footworks

fretwork fretworked

fretwork fretworks

frostwork frostworks

frostwort frostworts

fruitwood fruitwoods

fruitworm

garmentwork garmentworker garmentworkers

goutwort goutworts

gutwort gutworts

hartwort hartworts

heartwood heartwoods

heartworm heartworms

jointworm jointworms

knotwork knotworks

knotwort knotworts

lustwort lustworts

network cabinetwork cabinetworker cabinetworkers

network cabinetwork cabinetworking

network cabinetwork cabinetworks

network networkbased

network networked nonnetworked

network networked subnetworked

network networked unnetworked

network networker cabinetworker cabinetworkers

network networker networkers cabinetworkers

network networking cabinetworking

network networking subnetworking

network networklike

network networks cabinetworks

network networks subnetworks

network nonnetwork nonnetworked

network subnetwork subnetworked

network subnetwork subnetworking

network subnetwork subnetworks

nightwork nightworker nightworkers

nutwood

outwore

outwork outworked

outwork outworker outworkers

outwork outworking

outwork outworks

outworn

outworth outworthed

outworth outworthing

outworth outworths

paintwork

postwoman

postwomen

respectworthy

saltwork saltworker saltworkers

saltwork saltworks

saltwort saltworts

seatwork seatworks

seventytwo

shiftwork shiftworked

shiftwork shiftworker shiftworkers

shiftwork shiftworking

shiftwork shiftworks

shitwork

sightworthiness

sightworthy

sixtytwo

softwood softwoods

splitworm splitworms

stuntwoman

stuntwomen

sweetwort sweetworts

throatwort throatworts

trustworthier

trustworthiest

trustworthily

trustworthiness untrustworthiness

trustworthy untrustworthy

twentytwo twentytwos

twofaced

twofer twofers

twofold

twohanded twohandedly

twohanded twohandedness

twonie twonies

twoonie twoonies

twopence twopences

twophase

twos twentytwos

twos twoseater twoseaters

twos twosome twosomes

twos twospeed

twos twostage

twos twostep twostepped

twos twostep twostepper twosteppers

twos twostep twostepping

twos twostep twosteps

twos twostroke twostrokes

twotime twotimed

twotime twotimer twotimers

twotime twotimes

twotiming

twoway

velvetwork velvetworks

wartwort wartworts

wheatworm wheatworms