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twain
1[ tweyn ]
Twain
2[ tweyn ]
noun
- Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Twain
1/ tweɪn /
noun
- TwainMark18351910MUSWRITING: novelistWRITING: humorous writer Mark , pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens . 1835–1910, US novelist and humorist, famous for his classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
- TwainShania1965FCanadianMUSIC: country singer Shania (ʃəˈnaɪə), real name Eilleen Regina Edwards. born 1965, Canadian country-rock singer; her bestselling recordings include The Woman In Me (1995) Come On Over (1997), and UP! (2002)
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Origin of twain1
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Example Sentences
Cosby had turned down the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor twice before.
Mark Twain famously said courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Twain taught me that although the act of writing is solitary, the context that sustains it is social.
Twain found a way forward by making friends with other young writers.
In 1861, the year Twain went to Nevada, it had more than five thousand.
So the twain walked on very lovingly together, Dorothy gazing sadly and fondly at every well-known object in her path.
It is used in describing the operation of cutting in twain the animal sacrificed at the ratification of a covenant.
The twain immediately started, and roared in unison with their host most tremendously!
It is not, as Mark Twain would say, that there is anything the matter with it, Scotch beef is the best in the world.
He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.
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