| NOUN | quantity | couplet, couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad | two items of the same kind |
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| communication | couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse |
| Meaning | Two items of the same kind. | |
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| Synonyms | couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad | |
| Parts | mate, fellow | One of a pair |
| Narrower | doubleton | (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player |
| Broader | two, 2, II, deuce | The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number |
| Spanish | dúo, pareja, par, tándem | |
| Catalan | duo, parella, parell | |
| Meaning | A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed. | |
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| Parts | line of poetry, line of verse | A single line of words in a poem |
| Narrower | closed couplet | A rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit |
| heroic couplet | A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style | |
| Broader | stanza | A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| Spanish | pareado | |
| Catalan | rodolí | |
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