Meaning of two in English

two

number

/tuː/ us

/tuː/

the number 2:

They have two houses.

He'll be two (years old) in February.

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She had to choose between the two men in her life.
I wanted to take two weeks' holiday, but could only take one because the office was so busy.
Asia and Africa are the two biggest continents.
Due to roadworks, three lanes of traffic have to converge into two.
There are one or two typing errors in the report.
I spent two years in Ethiopia.

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Idioms

be in two minds
be two of a kind
have two left feet
it takes two to tango
(there's) no two ways about it.
or two
put two and two together
put two and two together and make five
that makes two of us
two can play at that game

More idioms

your two cents' worth

two's company, three's a crowd

(Definition of two from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

two | American Dictionary

two

number

/tu/

plural twos

Josh’ll be two in February.

a two-time winner

Two can also mean two o’clock.

Idioms

of two minds (about something)
someone's two cents
two sides of the same coin

(Definition of two from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

two | Business English

two

number

/tuː/ us

two plus two equals five (also 2+2=5)

used to say that two organizations working together or merging can achieve more than if they work separately:

Two plus two equals five in this case and the solid foundation this merger creates will help to grow the new entity into the best independent mortgage banking operation in the region.

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synergy

(Definition of two from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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（數字）2…

2, 2の…

iki, iki rakamı…

deux, deux ans, à/de deux (…)…

dos…

الرَقم 2…

dva, dvě, dva roky…

to, to år, to-…

dua, umur 2 tahun…

ตัวเลขหรือจำนวนสอง, อายุสองปี, สอง…

số 2, hai tuổi, có hai…

dwa…

dua, dua tahun…

die Zwei, zwei-……

to, to(tall), toer…

2, 둘…

dois…

（数字）2…

due, due anni, a/di due (…)…

два…

dos, dos años de edad, (número) dos…

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