couple

1. 1.

   bring two objects, ideas, or people together

   “This fact is coupled to the other one”

   “Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?”

   “The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project”

   Synonymsmatchmatepairtwin

   Broaderjoin

   Narrowermismatemismatch
2. 2.

   link together

   “can we couple these proposals?”

   Synonymscouple oncouple up

   Antonymsuncouple

   Broaderattach
3. 3.

   form a pair or pairs

   “The two old friends paired off”

   Synonymspairpair offpartner off

   Broaderunite
4. 4.

   engage in sexual intercourse

   “Birds mate in the Spring”

   Synonymscopulatematepair

   Broaderjoin

   Narrowernicksleep togethertreadservedeflowerride

Other forms of couple

plural

couples·

past tense

coupled·

present participle

coupling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about couple

What does couple mean?

couple means "a pair who associate with one another". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in couple?

couple has 2 syllables: cou-ple. The stress falls on "cou". In IPA it is /ˈkʌpəl/.

What is another word for couple?

Close synonyms include twosome, duo, duet, mates, match. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of couple?

The recorded antonyms are uncouple.

Is couple a common word?

couple is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with couple?

2 words rhyme with couple. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.