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21twain — [ tweın ] number OLD FASHIONED the number 2 never the twain shall meet used for saying that two things are very different and cannot exist together …
22Twain — (spr. twēn), Mark, s. Clemens 2), S. 189 …
23Twain,Mark — Twain (twān), Mark. See Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. * * * …
24Twain — (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dit Mark) (1835 1910) écrivain américain: les Aventures de Tom Sawyer (1876), les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn (1884), en partie autobiographiques, dépeignent avec humour la vie au temps de la conquête de l Ouest …
25Twain — Twain, Mark (1835 1910) a US writer best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and for his descriptions of life on the Mississippi River. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens …
26twain — O.E. twegen (masc.) two (masc. nom. and acc.), from P.Gmc. *twa (see TWO (Cf. two)). The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in M.E. and survived as a secondary form of two, especially in cases where the numeral follows a noun. Its… …
27Twain — [ tve:n ], Mark (amerikanischer Schriftsteller) …
28Twain — [twān] Mark pseudonym for CLEMENS Samuel Langhorne …
29twain — [twān] adj., n. [ME twene < OE twegen, nom. & acc. masc. form of twa, TWO] archaic var. of TWO …
30Twain, Mark — orig. Samuel Langhorne Clemens born Nov. 30, 1835, Florida, Mo., U.S. died April 21, 1910, Redding, Conn. U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer. He grew up in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. At age 13 he was apprenticed to a local printer …
