couples

nounpair of things
verbjoin two things

Synonyms for couples

noun pair of things

Antonyms for couples

individual

Word Origin & History

late 13c., from Old French cople "married couple, lovers" (12c., Modern French couple), from Latin copula "tie, connection," from PIE *ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened mid-14c. to "any two things."

Example Sentences for couples

The couples of the golden woodpeckers and doves live in perfect unison.

Couples lingered before the sparkling displays of jewellers' shops.

You and Caleb might have been married in the balloon, like the couples we read about in the papers.

Of course, they have their little differences—as have most couples.

That made fifteen centimes for each of us, because we always did errands in couples.

There were thus three couples, and the three gentlemen were to defray all expenses.

The first thing we must do is to get to know each other as couples.

Would the high caliber of the earlier group of couples be sustained?

When our couples returned in April 1972, the answers were resoundingly in the affirmative.

We ourselves do not "prepare" for the retreats and do not ask the couples to do so either.