twice
//twaɪs//
Definitions
1.Two times.
- You should brush your teeth twice a day.
- He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
2.Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
- MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.
- Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.
- You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1536
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending).