Couple | Mean of couple in English Dictionary

/ˈkʌpəl/

• Noun
• two people who are married or who have a romantic or sexual relationship
1. a happily married couple
2. “Are they a couple?” “No, they are just good friends.”
3. Seventeen couples participated in the survey.
4. The romance had gone out of their relationship, so they signed up for couples therapy. [=therapy in which a psychologist helps couples solve problems with their relationships]
• two people or things that are together
1. The people were lined up in couples.
• two or a few of something
1. Can you give me a couple more examples?
2. This one costs a couple less dollars than that one.
3. I lost interest in the book after a couple chapters.
4. We owned a couple dogs.
5. We stopped for a couple drinks after work.
6. I saw the movie a couple nights ago.
7. We met a couple years ago.
8. I took a couple weeks off.
9. a couple hundred people
10. a couple dozen

• two or a few
1. “How many drinks have you had?” “Oh, just a couple.”
• two of or a few of
1. It happened a couple of days ago. [=two days ago]
2. I only had a couple of sips.
3. Can you loan me a couple of dollars?
4. I have a couple of favorite restaurants I go to.
5. I'll be ready in a couple of minutes. [=I'll be ready soon]
6. Our schedule is booked solid for the next couple of weeks. [=for the next two weeks]
7. They've lost the last/previous couple of games.
• Verb
• to join (two things) together
1. a device that makes it possible to couple the pieces
2. The coils are loosely/tightly coupled.
• to join (something) to something else
1. The wire is coupled to the terminal.
2. It took an hour to couple the trailer to the truck.
• to join or combine (something) with (something else)
1. The exhibit couples poems with paintings.
2. An oil spill coupled with [=combined with, together with] strong winds brought disaster.
3. The team's win, coupled with a loss by their rivals, put them in first place.