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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
cou•ple /ˈkʌpəl/USA pronunciation   n., v., -pled, -pling. 
n. [countable]
  1. a combination of two of a kind;
    pair:Arrange the chairs in couples.
  2. a grouping of two persons, such as a married pair, or dance partners:What a lovely couple they make.
  3. Mechanics a couple of, [~ + of + a plural noun] a few;
    several;
    more than one but not many:It's a couple of miles farther on.

v. 
  1. to fasten or associate together in a pair or pairs:[~ + object]The trainmen coupled the cars together.
  2. to join;
    connect:[~ + object + with + object]The economic demands were coupled with cries for political freedom.
  3. [no object] to have sex;
    copulate.
    Compare pair and couple, which both take a before and of after, and have the meaning "a group of two.'' pair is used when the two items mentioned next come as a set, with one not usually used without the other: a pair of socks, a pair of gloves, or when there is one item that has two parts, as in a pair of shorts, a pair of scissors. couple is used for things of the same kind that happen to be two in number: a couple of books, a couple of chairs. Only couple has the sense of "a few, several,'' as in a couple of miles away. couple therefore can mean "two (or more)''; pair will almost always mean "two (or less).''
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
cou•ple  (kup′əl),USA pronunciation n., v., -pled, -pling. 
n. 
  1. two of the same sort considered together;
    pair.
  2. two persons considered as joined together, as a married or engaged pair, lovers, or dance partners:They make a handsome couple.
  3. any two persons considered together.
  4. Mechanicsa pair of equal, parallel forces acting in opposite directions and tending to produce rotation.
  5. BuildingAlso called couple-close. [Carpentry.]a pair of rafters connected by a tie beam or collar beam.
  6. a leash for holding two hounds together.
  7. [Fox Hunting.]two hounds:25 hounds or 121⁄2 couple.
  8. Idioms a couple of, more than two, but not many, of;
    a small number of;
    a few:It will take a couple of days for the package to get there.Also, a couple. 

v.t. 
  1. to fasten, link, or associate together in a pair or pairs.
  2. to join;
    connect.
  3. to unite in marriage or in sexual union.
  4. Electricity
    • to join or associate by means of a coupler.
    • to bring (two electric circuits or circuit components) close enough to permit an exchange of electromagnetic energy.

v.i. 
  1. to join in a pair;
    unite.
  2. to copulate.
  • Latin copulāre (see copulate)
  • Anglo-French co(u)pler, Old French copler, cupler
  • Latin cōpula a tie, bond (see copula); (verb, verbal) Middle English couplen
  • Anglo-French c(o)uple, Old French cople, cuple
  • (noun, nominal) Middle English 1175–1225
cou′ple•a•ble, adj. 
    The phrase a couple of has been in standard use for centuries, especially with measurements of time and distance and in referring to amounts of money:They walked a couple of miles in silence.Repairs will probably cost a couple of hundred dollars.The phrase is used in all but the most formal speech and writing. The shortened phrase a couple, without of (The gas station is a couple miles from here), is an Americanism of recent development that occurs chiefly in informal speech or representations of speech. Without a following noun, the phrase is highly informal:Jack shouldn't drive.I think he's had a couple.(Here the noun drinks is omitted.)
    In referring to two people, couple, like many collective nouns, may take either a singular or a plural verb. Most commonly, it is construed as a plural:The couple were traveling to Texas.See also collective noun. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
couple / ˈkʌpəl/
  1. two people who regularly associate with each other or live together: an engaged couple
  2. (functioning as singular or plural) two people considered as a pair, for or as if for dancing, games, etc
  3. a pair of equal and opposite parallel forces that have a tendency to produce rotation with a torque or turning moment equal to the product of either force and the perpendicular distance between them
  4. two dissimilar metals, alloys, or semiconductors in electrical contact, across which a voltage develops
    See thermocouple
  5. a connector or link between two members, such as a tie connecting a pair of rafters in a roof
  6. a couple of ⇒ (functioning as singular or plural) a combination of two; a pair of: a couple of men
  7. a small number of; a few: a couple of days
  1. (usually preceded by a; functioning as singular or plural) two; a pair: give him a couple
  1. (transitive) to connect (two things) together or to connect (one thing) to (another): to couple railway carriages
  2. to form or be formed into a pair or pairs
  3. to associate, put, or connect together
  4. (intransitive) to have sexual intercourse
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French: a pair, from Latin cōpula a bond; see copula

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