Meaning

2 senses
  1. One of two cities in close proximity to each other.

    Texarkana, Arkansas, and Texarkana, Texas, are twin cities forming the Texarkana metropolitan area.

  2. A city that has been twinned with another more distant city.

    Near-synonym: twin town

Forms

plural: twin cities
Singulartwin city
Pluraltwin cities

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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